Jake Varner

Jake Varner in 2012

Personal information

Full name

Jacob Stephen Varner

Nationality

American

Born

March 24, 1986
Bakersfield, California

Residence

State College, Pennsylvania

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Weight

212 lb (96 kg)

Sport

Wrestling

Event(s)

Freestyle

College team

Iowa State Cyclones

Club

Nittany Lion WC

Coached by

Cael Sanderson

Medal record

Representing the United States
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Olympic Games
	2012 London	96 kg
World Championships
	2011 Istanbul	96 kg
Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin
	2016 Krasnoyarsk	97 kg

Updated on August 13, 2012.

Jacob Stephen "Jake" Varner (born March 24, 1986) is a male wrestler from United States. He won the gold medal in the 96 kg category at the 2012 Summer Olympics.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Varner is four-time NCAA Division One finalist, two-time NCAA Division One champion (junior and senior) and two-time California State wrestling champion for Bakersfield High School, where his uncle Andy is the head coach, and his father, Steve, is an assistant.

References

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↑ "Jake Varner". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
↑ "Jacob Stephen Varner Profile London Olympics 2012". August 13, 2012.
↑ "American Jacob Varner takes 96kg freestyle wrestling gold". BBC. August 13, 2012.

External links

Olympic Champions in freestyle heavyweight

1904 Bernhoff Hansen (USA) 1908 Con O'Kelly (GBR) 1920 Robert Roth (SUI) 1924 Harry Steel (USA) 1928 Johan Richthoff (SWE) 1932 Johan Richthoff (SWE) 1936 Kristjan Palusalu (EST) 1948 Gyula Bóbis (HUN) 1952 Arsen Mekokishvili (URS) 1956 Hamit Kaplan (TUR) 1960 Wilfried Dietrich (EUA) 1964 Aleksandr Ivanitsky (URS) 1968 Aleksandr Medved (URS) 1972 Ivan Yarygin (URS) 1976 Ivan Yarygin (URS) 1980 Ilya Mate (URS) 1984 Lou Banach (USA) 1988 Vasile Pușcașu (ROU) 1992 Leri Khabelov (EUN) 1996 Kurt Angle (USA) 2000 Sagid Murtazaliev (RUS) 2004 Khadzhimurat Gatsalov (RUS) 2008 Shirvani Muradov (RUS) 2012 Jake Varner (USA) 2016 Kyle Snyder (USA)

+71.67 kg (1904) +73 kg (1908) +82.5 kg (1920) +87 kg (1924–1960) +97 kg (1964–1968) −100 kg (1972–1996) −97 kg (2000) −96 kg (2004–2012) −97 kg (2016–Present)

2012 USA Olympic Wrestling Team

Men's Greco-Roman	Spenser Mango Ellis Coleman Justin Lester Ben Provisor Chas Betts Dremiel Byers

Women's freestyle	Clarissa Chun Kelsey Campbell Elena Pirozhkova Ali Bernard

Men's freestyle	Sam Hazewinkel Coleman Scott Jared Frayer Jordan Burroughs Jake Herbert Jake Varner Tervel Dlagnev

Men's Greco-Roman coaches	Steve Fraser Momir Petković Ike Anderson

Women's freestyle coaches	Terry Steiner Vladislav Izboinikov Erin Tomeo

Men's freestyle coaches	Zeke Jones Brandon Slay Bill Zadick

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