Brandon Slay

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Olympic medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Gold 2000 Sydney 76 kg

Brandon Slay (born October 14, 1975) won an Olympic gold medal for the United States in wrestling.

Slay was born in Amarillo, Texas and now lives in Dallas where he works for Stream Realty Partners, a commercial real estate firm.[1]

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[edit] High School Years

He went to high school at Tascosa High School where he was All-State honors in football and was a three-time State Champion in wrestling.

[edit] College Years

Slay studied business at the University of Pennsylvania and received a degree from the Wharton School of Business. He wrestled all four years at Pennsylvania and was runner up and All American in the NCAA tournament at 167 pounds twice.

[edit] Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney

Slay won the gold medal at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia after losing in the finals to Alexander Leipold of Germany. Leipold then tested positive for the steroid Nandrolone and the gold medal was awarded to Slay.[2] Slay is a devout Christian and runs Greater Gold which does speeches and camps about Christ and wrestling.

[edit] References

  1. ^ About Brandon. BrandonSlay.com. Retrieved on 2007-05-18.
  2. ^ Slay: 'There more to life than gold'. ESPN (2000-10-17). Retrieved on 2007-05-18.


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