Daniel Oliver "Dan" Brand ( English Daniel Oliver "Dan" Brand ; August 4, 1935 , Lincoln (district, Tennessee) , Tennessee , USA - February 10, 2015 , California , USA ) - American freestyle wrestler and Greco-Roman style, Olympic Games bronze medalist, World Championship bronze medalist, seven-time US champion in wrestling. Brother of Glenn Brenda , Olympic wrestling champion [1] .
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| Full name | Daniel Oliver Brand |
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| Club | Olympic Club |
| Date of Birth | August 4, 1935 |
| Place of Birth | Lincoln District, Tennessee , Tennessee , USA |
| Date of death | February 10, 2015 (79 years) |
| Place of death | California , USA |
| Growth | 195 |
| Weight | 93 |
Biography
In high school, the struggle was not involved. Enrolling at the University of Nebraska College, too, preferring to play basketball for a team of freshmen Nebraska Cornhuskers . However, in the second year I was forced to leave the team, and from idleness I took part in the wrestling college championship, surprisingly winning. [2] He began taking lessons from Olympic champion Bill Smith , and after graduating from college he followed the coach in San Francisco , where he joined the Olympic Club . There he discovered his potential wrestler.
Having passed the qualifying competition, he got into the Olympic team for the games of 1960, where he appeared in light heavyweight wrestling competitions, and took the fifth place.
See tournament table .
In 1961 at the World Championships in freestyle wrestling remained fourth, and in the Greco-Roman fifth. In 1962 he became the bronze medalist of the world championship in freestyle wrestling in the light heavyweight. In 1961, 1963 and 1964 he became the champion of the USA in freestyle wrestling, and in 1964 also in Greco-Roman.
At the 1964 Olympics, he competed in freestyle wrestling in the middleweight, and won the bronze medal of the games, becoming the only American wrestler in these games to win the Olympic award.
See tournament table .
After the Olympics left a career in sports, and became an engineer.
He died in 2015.
A member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, a member of the Hall of Fame of Nebraska Sports.
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Links
- Daniel Brand - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Daniel Brand - profile on the International Wrestling Database (eng.)