Daniel Brand

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Medal record
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Olympic Games
Bronze 1964 Tokyo, Japan Middleweight
Pan American Games
Gold 1963 Sao Paolo 213 lbs.

Daniel Oliver (Dan) Brand (born August 4, 1935) is a retired American wrestler. He attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was an All-America selection in 1958.[1]

Brand won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling (middleweight class) at the 1964 Summer Olympics, which were held in Tokyo. On the way to his medal, he defeated Theuni Van Wyk of the Netherlands, Tasuo Sasaki of Japan, and Faiz Muhammad of Pakistan. He lost his final match to Hasan Güngör of Turkey, who won the silver medal.[2]

Before the 1964 Olympics, Brand had won four straight titles in freewrestling at the Amateur Athletic Union National Championships,[3] along with three straight titles in Greco-Roman wrestling.[4] He had also won a gold medal at the 1963 Pan American Games, contributing to an American sweep in that event.[5]

Brand participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics at Rome, but placed fifth in his class and did not earn a medal.[6]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Nebraska's All-Americans. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  2. ^ The Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  3. ^ AAU National Freestyle Champions. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  4. ^ AAU Greco-Roman National Championships. Retrieved 11 December 2007.
  5. ^ "US Takes 8 Wrestling, 4 Swim Events". Chicago Tribune. 26 April 1963. C1.
  6. ^ The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome: The Official Report of the Organizing Committee. Retrieved 11 December 2007.

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