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Kyle Snyder (born November 20, 1995) is an American amateur wrestler who amassed a 179-0 record in his first three years of high school before becoming the youngest American in over 20 years to win a FILA Junior World championship in August 2013. Snyder was coached by two former World Champions during his gold medal match: Bill Zadick of the Iowa Hawkeyes, who was a college teammate of Jeff McGinness, the youngest ever American FILA Junior World Champion who won the tournament in 1992, as well as Zeke Jones. Although Snyder was unable to repeat his gold medal run in 2014, he still managed to bring a bronze medal back home, and in the process became the youngest two-time Junior World medalist in American history.〔http://www.fila-official.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=768&Itemid=100236&lang=en〕 Even before bringing home his Junior World title in 2013, Snyder had already decided to forgo his senior year of high school competition and instead compete internationally as a resident athlete at the United States Olympic Training Center beginning in the fall of 2013. And then in the spring of 2014, at just 18 years of age, Snyder was selected to represent Team USA as the youngest-ever member of the Beat the Streets All-Star team that faced off against top-ranked wrestlers from across the world, where he wrestled alongside fellow Americans with multiple NCAA championships and Olympic gold medals such as David Taylor, Brent Metcalf, and Jordan Burroughs.〔http://www.teamusa.org/usa-wrestling/features/2014/april/29/us-team-finalized-for-beat-the-streets-gala-on-may-7〕 Snyder, who competes internationally at 96 kg, lost a tightly contested exhibition match 6-3〔http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2014/May/07/USA-beats-World-All-Stars-8-3-in-Beat-the-Streets-in-Times-Square〕 against Khadzhimurat Gatsalov, the #1 ranked wrestler in the world at 120 kg who at 31 years old has won five World Championships and an Olympic gold medal.〔http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Features/2014/February/12/Fila-freestyle-rankings〕 A few weeks later, Snyder secured a place on his second consecutive USA Junior World Team, winning by technical fall in the national finals.〔http://www.13abc.com/story/25686638/buckeye-kyle-snyder-qualifies-for-second-fila-junior-world-championships〕 Snyder hoped to repeat his championship run at the Junior World Championships in 2014, however he fell short and lost to Georgy Gogaev of Russia from North Ossetia-Alania in the quarterfinals, and wrestled back for a bronze. Earlier in 2014 the precocious Gogaev had defeated two former Division I (NCAA) champions Dustin Kilgore and Cam Simaz,〔http://www.newyorkwrestlingnews.com/news_article/show/316249-usa-and-russia-split-pair-of-duals-in-ny-cornell-wrestle-offs-hofstra-on-the-road-and-more〕 both of whom had won their NCAA titles years earlier, in 2011 and 2012 respectively - while Snyder was still competing in high school. ==Career== In the early minutes of his gold medal Junior World Championships match in 2013, Snyder was thrown to his back by his Armenian opponent, Viktor Kazishvili, and nearly pinned.〔 After fighting off his back and down 4-1, Snyder then ran off 10 unanswered points to secure the victory by technical fall in four minutes and four seconds, his third in his four matches at the tournament.〔〔 During his 179-0 run during his first three years of high school, Snyder only gave up a single takedown.〔 Snyder, who stopped playing football for his nationally ranked high school team following his sophomore season, is a two-time Washington Post All-Met Wrestler of the Year, and was named the male 2013 ASICS Wrestler of the Year as well as Intermat's 2013 Wrestler of the Year. In November 2013, Snyder became the #1 ranked "Pound for Pound" (P4P) American high school wrestler according to Flowrestling.org.〔http://www.flowrestling.org/asics-florankings/#P4P〕 Undefeated in what are considered the top 3 toughest high school wrestling tournaments in America, Snyder won the Walsh Ironman twice, Beast of the East three-times, and the Powerade Wrestling Tournament once.〔 Snyder began wrestling for the Ohio State Buckeyes in 2014, and placed second in the NCAA championships his freshman year. Snyder is taking an Olympic redshirt for the 2015-16 season, leaving him with three years of eligibility starting in the 2016-17 season. Snyder is a 2015 UWW world champion at age 19. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kyle Snyder (wrestler)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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