Achievements
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He competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where he received a gold medal in freestyle featherweight. After winning three high school state titles in South Dakota, he was a four-time All-American and two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association champion at the University of Iowa. A two-time Olympian, and 1984 Olympic champion in Los Los Angeles At Iowa, he was a four-time All-American and two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association champion. Won gold medal at 136.5 pounds in freestyle wrestling at 1984 Olympics, outscoring his first four opponents 52-4 to advance to the final, where he crushed Japan"s Kosei Akaishi 24-11 in 4:52. He was second in the 1988 Olympic trials to John Smith, who wound up winning a gold medal, and was 1990 Pan Am champion.
