2023-24 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 97 kg/ 213.9 lbs.

Years on Team USA: 10 (2015-23)

Residence: State College, Pa.

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coaches: Cael Sanderson, Jake Varner

Regional Training Center: Nittany Lion WC

College: Ohio State

High School: Olney, Md. (Our Lady of Good Counsel); Colorado Springs, Colo. (Coronado)

Born: Nov. 20, 1995, in Silver Spring, Maryland

Height: 5-11

Past Olympic Games

2020 Olympic Games (Silver at 97 kg), 2016 Olympic Games (Gold at 97 kg)

Past Senior World Teams

2023 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 97 kg), 2022 Senior Worlds (Gold at 97 kg), 2021 Senior Worlds (Silver at 97 kg), 2019 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 97 kg), 2018 Senior Worlds (Silver at 97 kg), 2017 Senior Worlds (Gold at 97 kg), 2015 Senior Worlds (Gold at 97 kg)

Past Age-Group World Teams

2013 Junior Worlds (Gold at 96 kg), 2014 Junior Worlds (Bronze at 96 kg)

Career Notes

2016 Olympic gold medalist
2020 Olympic silver medalist

Three-time World champion (2015, 2017, 2022)
Two-time World silver medalist (2018, 2021)
Two-time World bronze medalist (2019, 2023)
2013 Junior World Champion
2014 Junior World bronze medalist

Three-time Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix champion (Russia) (2017, 2018, 2022)
Six-time Pan American Championships gold medalist (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Two-time Pan American Games champion (2015, 2019)
2016 World Cup champion
2015 U.S. Open champion

Three-time NCAA champion for Ohio State (2016-18) and four-time finalist

Career Biography

2023: World bronze medalist... Imre Polyk & Jnos Varga Memorial champion (Hungary), Final X champion, Pan American Championships champion… Dan Kolov International champion (Bulgaria)… Zagreb Open champion (Croatia)….

2022: World champion… Final X champion… Pan American Championships champion… Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix champion (Russia)

2021: Olympic Silver Medalist… World silver medalist… U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion… Pan American Championships champion...

2020: Pan American Championships champion… Bronze at Matteo Pellicone International… Sixth at Senior Nationals…

2019: World bronze medalist… Final X champion… Pan American Championships gold medalist… Pan American Games gold medalist… Dan Kolov International champion (Bulgaria)… Yasar Dogu champion (Turkey)… Bill Farrell International champion… Ninth at Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia)…

2018: World silver medalist… Third at Yasar Dogu International (Turkey)… Final X champion… Freestyle World Cup Team member… Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix champion (Russia)

2017: World champion… Grand Prix of Spain gold medalist… U.S. World Team Trials champion… Pan American gold medalist… Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia) gold medalist…

2016: Olympic gold medalist… Grand Prix of Germany bronze medalist… Olympic Team Trials champion… Freestyle World Cup Team member (fourth) … Alexander Medved International (Belarus) bronze medalist… Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia) bronze medalist…

2015: World champion… Pan American Games gold medalist… U.S. World Team Trials champion… U.S. Open champion…

2014: UWW Junior World bronze medalist … UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… UWW Junior Freestyle Nationals champion … Cerro Pelado International Junior champion (Cuba)…

2013: Junior World champion… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… UWW Junior Nationals champion… Third in Henri Deglane Challenge (France) …

College: Three-time NCAA champion for Ohio State (2016-18)… Second at 2015 NCAA Championships… Two-time Big Ten champion (2016-17)… Second in 2015 and 2018 Big Ten Championships… Member of 2015 NCAA championship team, the first in Ohio State history… Coached by Tom Ryan… Majored in Sport Industry with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies…

High School: Compiled 179-0 record in three seasons for Our Lady of Good Counsel under Skylar Saar… Three-time Prep School National champion… Three-time MPSSAA State champion… Attended Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, Colo. as a senior… Graduated from Coronado in 2014… Resident-athlete at U.S. Olympic Training Center during 2013-14 school year…

Age-Group Achievements: 2012 Junior Nationals champion in Greco-Roman and third in freestyle… Freestyle Junior World Team Trials runner-up (2012) … Third at FILA Junior Nationals (2012) … Greco-Roman Cadet Fargo Nationals runner-up (2011) … Freestyle Cadet National champion (2011)…

Personal: Son of Tricia and Steve Snyder… has one sister, Megan, and two brother, Steve and Kevin… married to Maddie Pack… also works as partner with Rudis… started wrestling at the age of five…

Hobbies: playing basketball… reading the Bible… studying Russian…

Awards: 2017 Team USA Male Olympic Athlete of the Year… 2017 AAU Sullivan Award winner as nation’s top amateur athlete…. 2015 USA Wrestling Freestyle Wrestler of the Year… 2015 U.S. Open Outstanding Wrestler… 2013 ASICS High School Wrestler of the Year…

Twitter: @Snyder_man45

Instagram: @snyderman45

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