William Smith (wrestler)
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| Born | September 17, 1928 Portland, Oregon, U.S. | |||||||||||||
| Died | March 20, 2018 (aged 89) Humboldt, Iowa, U.S. | |||||||||||||
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William T. Smith (September 17, 1928 – March 20, 2018)[1] was an American wrestler and Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling.
Smith was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Thomas Jefferson Senior High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa.[2] He then enrolled at Iowa State Teachers College (now the University of Northern Iowa), Smith won back-to-back NCAA wrestling titles at 165 pounds in 1949 and 1950. As a team, Iowa State Teachers College finished as NCAA Runners-Up in 1949 and NCAA Champions in 1950. He also won three Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national titles.[3]
William Smith died on March 20, 2018. Intermat Wrestling website posted an article about Bill citing all of his accomplishments.[4]
Olympics[]
Smith competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the welterweight class.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Olympic champion, T.J. Grad Bill Smith dies at 89".
- ^ "Notable Oregonians". All-Oregon. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
- ^ "Bill Smith, University of Northern Iowa". Des Moines Register. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
- ^ Palmer, Mark (March 21, 2018). "Olympic gold medalist, NCAA champ Bill Smith passes". InterMat Wrestle.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Wrestling" Archived 2007-06-10 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 13 September 2008)
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