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John Smith is a name synonymous with wrestling success. The Oklahoma State head coach won six consecutive world championships as a competitor from 1987-92, including gold medals at the 1988 Olympic ...
Oklahoma State has hired Olympic gold medalist David Taylor as its wrestling coach to replace John Smith, the school said Tuesday. Taylor, 33, won gold in the 86-kilogram class at the Tokyo ...
In the summer of 1992 he won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics ... What do Oklahoma high school wrestling coaches say about John Smith's retirement from OSU? National championships: 11 ...
Legendary Oklahoma State head coach John Smith stepped away ... He also added Iowa legend and Olympic Bronze Medalist Thomas Gilman, who trained at the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club the last two ...
Tokyo Olympic wrestling gold medalist David Taylor is ... succeeds 1988 and 1992 Olympic gold medalist John Smith, who retired, as head coach at Oklahoma State. Taylor, 33, has not announced ...
Brooks won a Bronze Medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics and would ... “But as I alluded to earlier, John Smith had this job for 33 years. So the big jobs in wrestling, you know, college programs ...
Coleman Scott was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame Class of ... Scott was coached by John Smith, who retired ...
Taylor became the head coach of Oklahoma State after John Smith ... at the Olympic Trials, Taylor accepted the Cowboys' open position and created shockwaves across the college wrestling world.
After his wrestling career, John Smith coached the Cowboys for 33 years until it was announced last week that he was stepping ...