Randy Lewis (wrestler)

Randy Lewis
Personal information
Full name	Randall Scott Lewis
Born	June 7, 1959 (age 62); Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing the United States
Olympic Games

Randall Scott Lewis (born June 7, 1959, in Rapid City, South Dakota) is an American wrestler and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, where he won the gold medal in freestyle at featherweight.^[1]^[2] After winning three high school state titles in South Dakota, Lewis won the Junior World ( Under 20 years old and younger) Freestyle Championships, pinning Hideaki Tomiyama of Japan enroute to the gold. Tomiyama would go on to win the Men's Senior World Championships the next two years, and eventually Olympic gold in 1984.

Lewis became a four-time All-American and two-time NCAA champion at the University of Iowa. At one point in his high school career, Lewis held the national consecutive pin record at 45. A two-time Olympian, and 1984 Olympic champion in Los Angeles, Lewis was also a member of 1980 Olympic team, but President Jimmy Carter's boycott prevented the U.S. team from traveling to the Games in Moscow.

Lewis won the gold medal at 136.5 pounds in freestyle wrestling at the 1984 Olympics Games, outscoring his first four opponents 52-4 to advance to the final, where he defeated Japan's Kosei Akaishi 24-11 in 4:52.

He was second in the 1988 Olympic trials to John Smith, America's most accomplished international freestyle wrestler to date ( arguably with Jordan Burroughs and Bruce Baumgartner), losing out in a best of 3 series. Smith went on to capture Olympic gold in both the 1988 and 1992 Games.