Schultz Memorial Rewind: 13 Olympic champions, 36 World champions among past Schultz gold medalists
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by Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling
Olympic champion and four-time World champion Jordan Burroughs scores a takedown on the way to his 2012 Dave Schultz Memorial International title. Photo by Larry Slater.
As USA Wrestling celebrates the 20th Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 1-4, a look back at past champions of the this respected international tournament reveals that many of the best wrestlers in the world have won Schultz Memorial gold during their careers.
The tournament was created to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Dave Schultz by bringing the world together for competition. Along the way, it has also served as a showcase of outstanding wrestlers from all over the world.
In the first 19 Dave Schultz Memorial Internationals, there have been 13 Olympic gold medalists who have won the tournament. Included are four Olympic champions from the USA, 2000 Olympic freestyle champion Brandon Slay, 2000 Olympic Greco-Roman champion Rulon Gardner, 2012 Olympic freestyle champion Jordan Burroughs and 2016 Olympic women’s freestyle champion Helen Maroulis.
Two of these USA Olympic champions have won three Dave Schultz Memorials. Gardner won his titles in 1999, 2000 and 2004. He won his 2000 Olympic gold and 2004 Olympic bronze the same year he won the Schultz Memorial. Maroulis won her Dave Schultz titles in three consecutive years, from 2013-2015.
Like Gardner, Slay won a gold medal at the first Dave Schultz Memorial in 1999. Burroughs competed in the Dave Schultz Memorial once, winning the title in 2012, the year he won his Olympic gold.
Three-time Olympic Greco-Roman heavyweight champion Mijian Lopez of Cuba has a pair of Schultz titles in 2003 and 2008. Among the past winners are two-time Olympic Greco-Roman champions Armen Nazarian of Bulgaria and Filberto Azcuy of Cuba. Nazarian won the first Dave Schultz Memorial in 1999. Azcuy claimed a title in 2003.
Other Olympic champions with Schultz gold medalist are Greco-Roman stars Karim Gaber of Egypt, Andrea Minguzzi of Italy and Jun Ji-Hyun of Korea, women’s freestyle champions Carol Huynh and Erica Wiebe of Canada plus men’s freestyle titlist Khadjimourat Magomedov of Russia. Huynh won the Schultz Memorial three times.
Past Dave Schultz Memorial champions include 39 individual World champions, who won a combined 54 World gold medals. Included are two five-time World champions, Greco-Roman heavyweight star Lopez of Cuba plus five-time World women’s champion Stanka Zlateva of Bulgaria. Like Lopez, Zlateva boasts two Dave Schultz Memorial golds in 2006 and 2008.
USA star Jordan Burroughs is a four-time World champion with a Schultz Memorial title. The three-time World champions with at least one Schultz Memorial title are Greco-Roman star Nazarian from Bulgaria and U.S. star Adeline Gray in women’s freestyle. Gray won Dave Schultz Memorial titles in 2009 and 2010.
The USA boasts 12 past World champions who have won Dave Schultz gold medals. Included in this group are Olympic champions Burroughs, Gray, Gardner and Maroulis. With her 2017 World gold, Maroulis is now a two-time World champion.
Two-time Women’s World champion Kristie Davis boasts a pair of Dave Schultz gold medals. Other World champion women on the list are Clarissa Chun, Sandra Bacher, Iris Smith and Elena Pirozhkova.
Two more Greco-Roman World champions and past Schultz winners are Dremiel Byers and Joe Warren. Byers has won more Dave Schultz Memorial titles than any athlete with six, taking home gold medals in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Another men’s freestyle World champion from Team USA who have won the Dave Schultz Memorial is Sammie Henson.
The list of Olympic medalists with Dave Schultz titles is 39 athletes long, with 10 Americans. The four Olympic champions are joined by Olympic silver medalists Stephen Abas and Sara McMann, plus Olympic bronze medalists Clarissa Chun, Patricia Miranda, Randi Miller and Coleman Scott.
Miranda has won the most Dave Schultz Memorial golds among women, with five career titles (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009). McMann won the tournament three times (2000, 2001, 2004). Miller and Abas won the Schultz Memorial twice each.
The list of Schultz champions who have won World medals is 97 and counting. Of this group, 35 are U.S. wrestlers. There are two nine-time World medalists with at least one Schultz title, Kristie Davis of the USA and Armen Nazarian of Bulgaria.
The most recent U.S. wrestler to win a World medal and join this list is Becka Leathers, a 2017 World bronze medalist who also won her first Dave Schultz Memorial in 2017.
Below is the list of past Olympic and World champions, plus Olympic and World medalists who have won this tournament. There is no doubt that for two decades, the Dave Schultz Memorial International has made a huge impact on the international wrestling scene.
PAST DAVE SCHULTZ MEMORIAL INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS
OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS (13)
2008, 2012, 2016 Olympic GR champion Mijian Lopez (CUB) – ’03, ‘08 DSMI (120 kg)
1996 and 2000 Olympic GR champion Armen Nazarian (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (63 kg)
1996 and 2000 Olympic GR champion Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (74 kg)
2004 Olympic GR champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Karim Gaber (EGY) – ’03 DSMI (96 kg)
2000 Olympic GR champion, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Rulon Gardner (USA) – ’99, ’00, ’04 DSMI (130kg)
2008 Olympic W champion, 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Carol Huynh (CAN) – ’04, ’05, ’09 DSMI (48 kg)
2000 Olympic FS champion Brandon Slay (USA) – ’99 DSMI (74 kg)
1996 Olympic FS champion Khadjimourat Magomedov (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (85 kg)
2008 Olympic GR champion Andrea Minguzzi (ITA) – ’08 DSMI (84 kg)
2004 Olympic GR champion Jun Ji-Hyun (KOR) – ’10 DSMI (60 kg)
2012 Olympic FS champion Jordan Burroughs (USA) – ’12 DSMI (74 kg)
2016 Olympic W champion Helen Maroulis (USA) – ’13, ’14, ’15 DSMI (55 kg)
2016 Olympic W champion Erica Wiebe (CAN) – ’14 DSMI (75 kg)
WORLD CHAMPIONS (36)
2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014 World GR champion Mijian Lopez (CUB) – ’03, ’08 DSMI (120 kg)
2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 World W champion Stanka Zlateva (BUL) – ’06, ’08 DSMI (72 kg)
2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 World FS champion Jordan Burroughs (USA) – ’12 DSMI (74 kg)
2012, 2014, 2015 World W champion Adeline Gray (USA) – ’09, ’10 DSMI (67 kg)
2002, 2003, 2005 World GR champion Armen Nazarian (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (63 kg)
2015, 2017 World W champion Helen Maroulis (USA) – ’13, ’14, ’15 DSMI (55 kg)
2003 and 2006 World FS champion Sazhid Sazhidov (RUS) – ’02 DSMI (84 kg)
2000 and 2003 World W champion Kristie Davis (USA) – ’04, ’06 DSMI (63 kg)
1997 World GR champion Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN), ’99 DSMI (76 kg)
2001World GR champion Rulon Gardner (USA) – ’99, ’00, ’04 DSMI (130kg)
1998 World FS champion Yoel Romero (Cuba) – ’00. ’03 DSMI (85 kg, 84 kg)
1997 World FS champion Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (Russia) – ’00 DSMI (97 kg)
2008 World W champion Clarissa Chun (USA) – ’00 DSMI (46 kg)
2001 World FS champion Khadjimourat Magomedov (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (85 kg)
2001 World GR champion Dilshod Aripov (UZB) – ’01, ‘06 DSMI (58 kg)
1999 World W champion Sandra Bacher (USA) – ’01 DSMI (68 kg)
2005 World W champion Iris Smith (USA) – ’00, ’01 DSMI (75 kg)
2001 World FS champion Herman Kontoev (BLR) – ’02 DSMI (55 kg)
2012 World GR Dremiel Byers (USA) – ’02, ’05, ’07, ’09, ’10, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
1998 World FS champion Sammie Henson (USA)- ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
1998 World FS champion Alexis Rodriguez (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (120 kg)
1999 World GR champion Lazaro Rivas (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2001 World GR champion Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (74 kg)
2006 World GR champion Joe Warren (USA) – ’05 DSMI (60 kg)
2006 World GR champion Mohammed Abdel-Fatah (EGY) – ’05, ’12 DSMI (96 kg)
2010 World FS champion Mihail Ganev (BUL) – ’07 DSMI (74 kg)
2007 World FS champion Georgi Ketoev (RUS) – ’07 DSMI (96 kg)
2005 World GR champion Nikolay Gergov (BUL) – ’07, ’08 DSMI (66 kg)
2012 World W champion Elena Pirozhkova (USA) – ’09, ’12, ’13, ’15 DSMI (63 kg)
2011 World GR champion Elis Guri (BUL) – ’11 DSMI (96 kg)
2012 World W champion Jessica MacDonald (CAN) – ’11, ’14 DSMI (51 kg)
2016 World FS champion Magomed Kurbanaliev (RUS) – ’13 DSMI (66 kg)
2013 World W champion Sun Yanan (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (48 kg)
2013 World W champion Fengliu Zhang (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (72 kg)
2012 World W champion Lan Zhang (CHN) – ’14 DSMI (58 kg)
2013 World GR champion Ivo Angelov (BUL) – ’15 DSMI (59 kg)
OLYMPIC MEDALISTS (39, including the 13 Olympic champions)
2004 & 2012 Olympic W silver, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Tonya Verbeek (CAN), ’06, ’07, ’11, ’12 DSMI (55 kg)
2008 and 2012 Olympic W silver medalist Stanka Zlateva (BUL) – ’06, ‘08 DSMI (72 kg)
2004 Olympic GR silver and 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN), ’99 DSMI (76 kg)
2012 Olympic FS silver and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Sushil Kumar (IND) – ’12 DSMI (66 kg)
2004 Olympic FS silver medalist Stephen Abas (USA) – ’00, ’04 DSMI (54 kg, 55 kg)
2000 Olympic FS silver medalist Yoel Romero (Cuba) – ’00, ’03 DSMI (85 kg, 84 kg)
2004 Olympic W silver medalist Sara McMann (USA) – ’00, ’01, 04 DSMI (62 kg)
2002 Olympic FS silver medalist Sammie Henson (USA) - ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2000 Olympic GR silver medalist Lazaro Rivas (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2008 Olympic GR silver medalist Nurbakyt Tengibayev (KAZ) – ’07, ‘09 DSMI (60 kg)
2008 Olympic W bronze medalist Clarissa Chun (USA) – ’00 DSMI (46 kg)
2004 Olympic FS bronze medalist Sazhid Sazhidov (RUS) – ’02 DSMI (84 kg)
2000 Olympic FS bronze medalist Alexis Rodriguez (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (120 kg)
2004 Olympic W bronze medalist Patricia Miranda (USA) – ’03, ’04, ’06, ’07, ’09 DSMI (48 kg)
2012 Olympic GR bronze medalist Jimmy Lidberg (SWE) – ’06 DSMI (96 kg)
2008 Olympic FS bronze medalist Georgi Ketoev (RUS) – ’07 DSMI (96 kg)
2008 Olympic W bronze medalist Randi Miller (USA) – ’07, ’14 DSMI (63 kg, 69 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Monika Michalik (POL) - ’08, ‘11 DSMI (69 kg)
2012 Olympic FS bronze medalist Shinichi Yumoto (JPN) – ’10 DSMI (55 kg)
2012 Olympic GR bronze medalist Damian Janikowski (POL) – ’11 DSMI (84 kg)
2012 Olympic GR bronze medalist Johan Euren (SWE) – ’11, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
2012 Olympic FS bronze medalist Coleman Scott (USA) – ’12 DSMI (60 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Sun Yanan (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (48 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Fengliu Zhang (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (72 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Sakshi Malik (IND) – ’14 DSMI (60 kg)
2008 Olympic FS bronze medalist Kiril Terziev (BUL) – ’15 DSMI (74 kg)
WORLD MEDALISTS (97, including the 36 World champions)
9x World W medalist Kristie Davis (USA) – ’04, ‘06 DSMI (63 kg)
9x World GR medalist Armen Nazarian (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (63 kg)
8x World GR medalist Mijian Lopez (CUB) – ’03, ’08 DSMI (120 kg)
6x World FS medalist Alexis Rodriguez (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (120 kg)
6x World W medalist Stanka Zlateva (BUL) – ’06, ‘08 DSMI (72 kg)
5x World W medalist Adeline Gray (USA) – ’09, ‘10 DSMI (67 kg)
5x World FS medalist Jordan Burroughs (USA) – ’12 DSMI (74 kg)
5x World FS medalist Yoel Romero (Cuba) – ’00, ’03 DSMI (85 kg, 84 kg)
5x World GR medalist Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (74 kg)
4x World W medalist Helen Maroulis (USA) – ’13, ’14, ’15 DSMI (55 kg)
4x World W medalist Ida Hellstrom (Sweden) – ’01 DSMI (51 kg)
4x World W medalist Ida-Therese Karlsson (Sweden) – ’01 DSMI (56 kg)
4x World W medalist Carol Huynh (CAN) – ’04, ’05, ’09 DSMI (48 kg)
4x World W medalist Elena Pirozhkova (USA) – ’09, ’12, ’13, ’15 DSMI (63 kg)
3x World GR medalist Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN), ’99 DSMI (76 kg)
3x World FS medalist Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (Russia) – ’00 DSMI (97 kg)
3x World W medalist Sara McMann (USA) – ’00, ’01, ’04 DSMI (62 kg)
3x World W medalist Sandra Bacher (USA) – ’01 DSMI (68 kg)
3x World GR medalist Dremiel Byers (USA) – ’02, ’05, ’07, ’09, ’10, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
3x World GR medalist Lazaro Rivas (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
3x World W medalist Anita Schaetzle (GER) – ’04 DSMI (72 kg)
3x World W medalist Patricia Miranda (USA) – ’03 ’04, ’06, ’07, ’09 DSMI (48 kg, 51 kg)
3x World W medalist Tonya Verbeek (CAN), ’06, ’07, ’11, ’12 DSMI (55 kg)
3x World GR medalist Almat Kebispayev (KAZ) – ’13 DSMI (60 kg)
3x World W medalist Jessica MacDonald (CAN) – ’11, ’14 DSMI (51 kg)
3x World GR medalist Nurmakhan Tinaliyev (KAZ) – ’15 DSMI (130 kg)
2x World GR medalist Badry Khasaia (GEO), ’00 DSMI (76 kg)
2x World FS medalist Khadjimourat Magomedov (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (85 kg)
2x World W medalist Toccara Montgomery (USA) – ’02, ‘03 DSMI (67 kg)
2x World W medalist Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) – ’02, ‘05 DSMI (72 kg)
2x World FS medalist Sammie Henson (USA)- ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2x World GR medalist Karim Gaber (EGY) – ’03 DSMI (96 kg)
2x World W medalist Sally Roberts (USA) – ’03, ’05, ’08 DSMI (59 kg)
2x World W medalist Tina George (USA) – ’04, ‘05 DSMI (55 kg)
2x World FS medalist Joe Williams (USA) – ’05, ‘06 DSMI (84 kg)
2x World GR medalist Justin “Harry” Lester (USA) – ’05, ’06, ’09, ’11 DSMI (66 kg)
2x World GR medalist Mohammed Abdel-Fatah (EGY) – ’05, ‘12 DSMI (96 kg)
2x World W medalist Katie Downing (USA) – ’05, ’07 DSMI (67 kg)
2x World GR medalist Nikolay Gergov (BUL) – ’07. ’08 DSMI (66 kg)
2x World FS medalist Naranbaatar Bayaraa (MGL) – ’08 DSMI (55 kg)
2x World GR medalist Jun Ji-Hyun (KOR) – ’10 DSMI (60 kg)
2x World W medalist Sasha Zhao (CHN) – ’10 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World W medalist Justine Bouchard (CAN) – ’10 DSMI (63 kg)
2x World W medalist Monika Michalik (POL) - ’08, ‘11 DSMI (69 kg)
2x World FS medalist Rizvan Gadzhiev (BLR) – ’11 DSMI (60 kg)
2x World W medalist Iwona Matkowska (POL) – ’11 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World GR medalist Andy Bisek (USA) – ’12, ’14 DSMI (74 kg)
2x World W medalist Alyssa Lampe (USA) – ’12 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World FS medalist Magomed Kurbanaliev (RUS) – ’13 DSMI (66 kg)
2x World W medalist Sun Yanan (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World W medalist Lan Zhang (CHN) – ’14 DSMI (58 kg)
2x World W medalist Alli Ragan (USA) – ’15 DSMI (58 kg)
2x World W medalist Anastasija Grigorjeva (LAT) – ’16 DSMI (63 kg)
2001 World W silver medalist Stephanie Murata (USA) – ’00. ’02, ’06, ‘07 DSMI (62 kg, 51 kg, 48 kg)
1991 World GR silver medalist Shawn Sheldon (USA) – ’99, ’01 DSMI (54 kg)
2007 World GR silver medalist Makoto Sasamoto (JPN) – ’03 DSMI (60 kg)
2007 World GR silver medalist Brad Vering (USA) – ’04, ’07 DSMI (84 kg)
2006 World W silver medalist Lyndsay Belisle (CAN) – ’05 DSMI (51 kg)
2006 World FS silver medalist Mike Zadick (USA) – ’06, ’10 DSMI (60 kg)
2009 World FS silver medalist Jake Herbert (USA) – ’08 DSMI (84 kg)
2005 World GR silver medalist Kim Min-Chul (KOR) – ’10 DSMI (66 kg)
2013 World FS silver medalist Amit Kumar (IND) – ’12 DSMI (55 kg)
2013 World W silver medalist Stacie Anaka (CAN) – ’12 DSMI (67 kg)
2015 World W silver medalist Feng Zhou (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (67 kg)
2017 World GR silver medalist Demeu Zhadrayev (KAZ) – ’15 DSMI (66 kg)
2002 World GR bronze medalist Ali Mollov (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (97 kg)
2001 World FS bronze medalist Alexandre Kontoev (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (54 kg)
2007 World FS bronze medalist Daniel Cormier (USA) – ’01, ‘07 DSMI (97 kg/120 kg)
2006 World FS bronze medalist Donny Pritzlaff (USA) – ’02, ‘05 DSMI (74 kg)
2006 World GR bronze medalist Lindsey Durlacher (USA) – ’02, ’06, ‘07 DSMI (55 kg)
2003 World W bronze medalist Jenny Wong (USA) – ’03 DSMI (51 kg)
2000 World W bronze medalist Jen Ryz (CAN) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2007 World FS bronze medalist Sahit Prezeni (ALB) – ’05 DSMI (60 kg)
2005 World FS bronze medalist Tolly Thompson (USA) – ’02, ’05, ‘06 DSMI (120 kg)
2009 World GR bronze medalist Nurbakyt Tengibayev (KAZ) – ’07, ’08 DSMI (60 kg)
2005 World GR bronze medalist Justin Ruiz (USA) – ’07, ’08, ’10 DSMI (96 kg)
2008 World W bronze medalist Brittanee Laverdure (CAN) – ’09, ’10 DSMI (55 kg)
2003 World W bronze medalist Hui Li (CHN) – ’10, ’13 DSMI (51 kg)
2017 World FS bronze medalist Magomedmurad Gadziev (RUS now POL) – ’11 DSMI (74 kg)
2013 World GR bronze medalist Johan Euren (SWE) – ’11, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
2015 World W bronze medalist Genevieve Haley (CAN) – ’12 DSMI (51 kg)
2015 World GR bronze medalist Doszhan Kartikov (KAZ) – ’13. ’15 DSMI (74 kg)
2014 World W bronze medalist Leigh Jaynes (USA) – ’15 DSMI (60 kg)
2017 World W bronze medalist Justina Distasio (CAN) – ’15 DSMI (75 kg)
2013 World W bronze medalist Epp Mae (LAT) – ’16 DSMI (75 kg)
2017 World W bronze medalist Becka Leathers (USA) – ’17 DSMI (55 kg)
As USA Wrestling celebrates the 20th Dave Schultz Memorial International in Colorado Springs, Colo., Nov. 1-4, a look back at past champions of the this respected international tournament reveals that many of the best wrestlers in the world have won Schultz Memorial gold during their careers.
The tournament was created to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Dave Schultz by bringing the world together for competition. Along the way, it has also served as a showcase of outstanding wrestlers from all over the world.
In the first 19 Dave Schultz Memorial Internationals, there have been 13 Olympic gold medalists who have won the tournament. Included are four Olympic champions from the USA, 2000 Olympic freestyle champion Brandon Slay, 2000 Olympic Greco-Roman champion Rulon Gardner, 2012 Olympic freestyle champion Jordan Burroughs and 2016 Olympic women’s freestyle champion Helen Maroulis.
Two of these USA Olympic champions have won three Dave Schultz Memorials. Gardner won his titles in 1999, 2000 and 2004. He won his 2000 Olympic gold and 2004 Olympic bronze the same year he won the Schultz Memorial. Maroulis won her Dave Schultz titles in three consecutive years, from 2013-2015.
Like Gardner, Slay won a gold medal at the first Dave Schultz Memorial in 1999. Burroughs competed in the Dave Schultz Memorial once, winning the title in 2012, the year he won his Olympic gold.
Three-time Olympic Greco-Roman heavyweight champion Mijian Lopez of Cuba has a pair of Schultz titles in 2003 and 2008. Among the past winners are two-time Olympic Greco-Roman champions Armen Nazarian of Bulgaria and Filberto Azcuy of Cuba. Nazarian won the first Dave Schultz Memorial in 1999. Azcuy claimed a title in 2003.
Other Olympic champions with Schultz gold medalist are Greco-Roman stars Karim Gaber of Egypt, Andrea Minguzzi of Italy and Jun Ji-Hyun of Korea, women’s freestyle champions Carol Huynh and Erica Wiebe of Canada plus men’s freestyle titlist Khadjimourat Magomedov of Russia. Huynh won the Schultz Memorial three times.
Past Dave Schultz Memorial champions include 39 individual World champions, who won a combined 54 World gold medals. Included are two five-time World champions, Greco-Roman heavyweight star Lopez of Cuba plus five-time World women’s champion Stanka Zlateva of Bulgaria. Like Lopez, Zlateva boasts two Dave Schultz Memorial golds in 2006 and 2008.
USA star Jordan Burroughs is a four-time World champion with a Schultz Memorial title. The three-time World champions with at least one Schultz Memorial title are Greco-Roman star Nazarian from Bulgaria and U.S. star Adeline Gray in women’s freestyle. Gray won Dave Schultz Memorial titles in 2009 and 2010.
The USA boasts 12 past World champions who have won Dave Schultz gold medals. Included in this group are Olympic champions Burroughs, Gray, Gardner and Maroulis. With her 2017 World gold, Maroulis is now a two-time World champion.
Two-time Women’s World champion Kristie Davis boasts a pair of Dave Schultz gold medals. Other World champion women on the list are Clarissa Chun, Sandra Bacher, Iris Smith and Elena Pirozhkova.
Two more Greco-Roman World champions and past Schultz winners are Dremiel Byers and Joe Warren. Byers has won more Dave Schultz Memorial titles than any athlete with six, taking home gold medals in 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Another men’s freestyle World champion from Team USA who have won the Dave Schultz Memorial is Sammie Henson.
The list of Olympic medalists with Dave Schultz titles is 39 athletes long, with 10 Americans. The four Olympic champions are joined by Olympic silver medalists Stephen Abas and Sara McMann, plus Olympic bronze medalists Clarissa Chun, Patricia Miranda, Randi Miller and Coleman Scott.
Miranda has won the most Dave Schultz Memorial golds among women, with five career titles (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009). McMann won the tournament three times (2000, 2001, 2004). Miller and Abas won the Schultz Memorial twice each.
The list of Schultz champions who have won World medals is 97 and counting. Of this group, 35 are U.S. wrestlers. There are two nine-time World medalists with at least one Schultz title, Kristie Davis of the USA and Armen Nazarian of Bulgaria.
The most recent U.S. wrestler to win a World medal and join this list is Becka Leathers, a 2017 World bronze medalist who also won her first Dave Schultz Memorial in 2017.
Below is the list of past Olympic and World champions, plus Olympic and World medalists who have won this tournament. There is no doubt that for two decades, the Dave Schultz Memorial International has made a huge impact on the international wrestling scene.
PAST DAVE SCHULTZ MEMORIAL INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS
OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS (13)
2008, 2012, 2016 Olympic GR champion Mijian Lopez (CUB) – ’03, ‘08 DSMI (120 kg)
1996 and 2000 Olympic GR champion Armen Nazarian (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (63 kg)
1996 and 2000 Olympic GR champion Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (74 kg)
2004 Olympic GR champion, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Karim Gaber (EGY) – ’03 DSMI (96 kg)
2000 Olympic GR champion, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist Rulon Gardner (USA) – ’99, ’00, ’04 DSMI (130kg)
2008 Olympic W champion, 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Carol Huynh (CAN) – ’04, ’05, ’09 DSMI (48 kg)
2000 Olympic FS champion Brandon Slay (USA) – ’99 DSMI (74 kg)
1996 Olympic FS champion Khadjimourat Magomedov (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (85 kg)
2008 Olympic GR champion Andrea Minguzzi (ITA) – ’08 DSMI (84 kg)
2004 Olympic GR champion Jun Ji-Hyun (KOR) – ’10 DSMI (60 kg)
2012 Olympic FS champion Jordan Burroughs (USA) – ’12 DSMI (74 kg)
2016 Olympic W champion Helen Maroulis (USA) – ’13, ’14, ’15 DSMI (55 kg)
2016 Olympic W champion Erica Wiebe (CAN) – ’14 DSMI (75 kg)
WORLD CHAMPIONS (36)
2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014 World GR champion Mijian Lopez (CUB) – ’03, ’08 DSMI (120 kg)
2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 World W champion Stanka Zlateva (BUL) – ’06, ’08 DSMI (72 kg)
2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 World FS champion Jordan Burroughs (USA) – ’12 DSMI (74 kg)
2012, 2014, 2015 World W champion Adeline Gray (USA) – ’09, ’10 DSMI (67 kg)
2002, 2003, 2005 World GR champion Armen Nazarian (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (63 kg)
2015, 2017 World W champion Helen Maroulis (USA) – ’13, ’14, ’15 DSMI (55 kg)
2003 and 2006 World FS champion Sazhid Sazhidov (RUS) – ’02 DSMI (84 kg)
2000 and 2003 World W champion Kristie Davis (USA) – ’04, ’06 DSMI (63 kg)
1997 World GR champion Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN), ’99 DSMI (76 kg)
2001World GR champion Rulon Gardner (USA) – ’99, ’00, ’04 DSMI (130kg)
1998 World FS champion Yoel Romero (Cuba) – ’00. ’03 DSMI (85 kg, 84 kg)
1997 World FS champion Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (Russia) – ’00 DSMI (97 kg)
2008 World W champion Clarissa Chun (USA) – ’00 DSMI (46 kg)
2001 World FS champion Khadjimourat Magomedov (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (85 kg)
2001 World GR champion Dilshod Aripov (UZB) – ’01, ‘06 DSMI (58 kg)
1999 World W champion Sandra Bacher (USA) – ’01 DSMI (68 kg)
2005 World W champion Iris Smith (USA) – ’00, ’01 DSMI (75 kg)
2001 World FS champion Herman Kontoev (BLR) – ’02 DSMI (55 kg)
2012 World GR Dremiel Byers (USA) – ’02, ’05, ’07, ’09, ’10, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
1998 World FS champion Sammie Henson (USA)- ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
1998 World FS champion Alexis Rodriguez (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (120 kg)
1999 World GR champion Lazaro Rivas (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2001 World GR champion Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (74 kg)
2006 World GR champion Joe Warren (USA) – ’05 DSMI (60 kg)
2006 World GR champion Mohammed Abdel-Fatah (EGY) – ’05, ’12 DSMI (96 kg)
2010 World FS champion Mihail Ganev (BUL) – ’07 DSMI (74 kg)
2007 World FS champion Georgi Ketoev (RUS) – ’07 DSMI (96 kg)
2005 World GR champion Nikolay Gergov (BUL) – ’07, ’08 DSMI (66 kg)
2012 World W champion Elena Pirozhkova (USA) – ’09, ’12, ’13, ’15 DSMI (63 kg)
2011 World GR champion Elis Guri (BUL) – ’11 DSMI (96 kg)
2012 World W champion Jessica MacDonald (CAN) – ’11, ’14 DSMI (51 kg)
2016 World FS champion Magomed Kurbanaliev (RUS) – ’13 DSMI (66 kg)
2013 World W champion Sun Yanan (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (48 kg)
2013 World W champion Fengliu Zhang (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (72 kg)
2012 World W champion Lan Zhang (CHN) – ’14 DSMI (58 kg)
2013 World GR champion Ivo Angelov (BUL) – ’15 DSMI (59 kg)
OLYMPIC MEDALISTS (39, including the 13 Olympic champions)
2004 & 2012 Olympic W silver, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Tonya Verbeek (CAN), ’06, ’07, ’11, ’12 DSMI (55 kg)
2008 and 2012 Olympic W silver medalist Stanka Zlateva (BUL) – ’06, ‘08 DSMI (72 kg)
2004 Olympic GR silver and 2000 Olympic bronze medalist Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN), ’99 DSMI (76 kg)
2012 Olympic FS silver and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist Sushil Kumar (IND) – ’12 DSMI (66 kg)
2004 Olympic FS silver medalist Stephen Abas (USA) – ’00, ’04 DSMI (54 kg, 55 kg)
2000 Olympic FS silver medalist Yoel Romero (Cuba) – ’00, ’03 DSMI (85 kg, 84 kg)
2004 Olympic W silver medalist Sara McMann (USA) – ’00, ’01, 04 DSMI (62 kg)
2002 Olympic FS silver medalist Sammie Henson (USA) - ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2000 Olympic GR silver medalist Lazaro Rivas (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2008 Olympic GR silver medalist Nurbakyt Tengibayev (KAZ) – ’07, ‘09 DSMI (60 kg)
2008 Olympic W bronze medalist Clarissa Chun (USA) – ’00 DSMI (46 kg)
2004 Olympic FS bronze medalist Sazhid Sazhidov (RUS) – ’02 DSMI (84 kg)
2000 Olympic FS bronze medalist Alexis Rodriguez (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (120 kg)
2004 Olympic W bronze medalist Patricia Miranda (USA) – ’03, ’04, ’06, ’07, ’09 DSMI (48 kg)
2012 Olympic GR bronze medalist Jimmy Lidberg (SWE) – ’06 DSMI (96 kg)
2008 Olympic FS bronze medalist Georgi Ketoev (RUS) – ’07 DSMI (96 kg)
2008 Olympic W bronze medalist Randi Miller (USA) – ’07, ’14 DSMI (63 kg, 69 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Monika Michalik (POL) - ’08, ‘11 DSMI (69 kg)
2012 Olympic FS bronze medalist Shinichi Yumoto (JPN) – ’10 DSMI (55 kg)
2012 Olympic GR bronze medalist Damian Janikowski (POL) – ’11 DSMI (84 kg)
2012 Olympic GR bronze medalist Johan Euren (SWE) – ’11, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
2012 Olympic FS bronze medalist Coleman Scott (USA) – ’12 DSMI (60 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Sun Yanan (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (48 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Fengliu Zhang (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (72 kg)
2016 Olympic W bronze medalist Sakshi Malik (IND) – ’14 DSMI (60 kg)
2008 Olympic FS bronze medalist Kiril Terziev (BUL) – ’15 DSMI (74 kg)
WORLD MEDALISTS (97, including the 36 World champions)
9x World W medalist Kristie Davis (USA) – ’04, ‘06 DSMI (63 kg)
9x World GR medalist Armen Nazarian (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (63 kg)
8x World GR medalist Mijian Lopez (CUB) – ’03, ’08 DSMI (120 kg)
6x World FS medalist Alexis Rodriguez (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (120 kg)
6x World W medalist Stanka Zlateva (BUL) – ’06, ‘08 DSMI (72 kg)
5x World W medalist Adeline Gray (USA) – ’09, ‘10 DSMI (67 kg)
5x World FS medalist Jordan Burroughs (USA) – ’12 DSMI (74 kg)
5x World FS medalist Yoel Romero (Cuba) – ’00, ’03 DSMI (85 kg, 84 kg)
5x World GR medalist Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (74 kg)
4x World W medalist Helen Maroulis (USA) – ’13, ’14, ’15 DSMI (55 kg)
4x World W medalist Ida Hellstrom (Sweden) – ’01 DSMI (51 kg)
4x World W medalist Ida-Therese Karlsson (Sweden) – ’01 DSMI (56 kg)
4x World W medalist Carol Huynh (CAN) – ’04, ’05, ’09 DSMI (48 kg)
4x World W medalist Elena Pirozhkova (USA) – ’09, ’12, ’13, ’15 DSMI (63 kg)
3x World GR medalist Marko Yli-Hannuksela (FIN), ’99 DSMI (76 kg)
3x World FS medalist Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (Russia) – ’00 DSMI (97 kg)
3x World W medalist Sara McMann (USA) – ’00, ’01, ’04 DSMI (62 kg)
3x World W medalist Sandra Bacher (USA) – ’01 DSMI (68 kg)
3x World GR medalist Dremiel Byers (USA) – ’02, ’05, ’07, ’09, ’10, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
3x World GR medalist Lazaro Rivas (CUB) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
3x World W medalist Anita Schaetzle (GER) – ’04 DSMI (72 kg)
3x World W medalist Patricia Miranda (USA) – ’03 ’04, ’06, ’07, ’09 DSMI (48 kg, 51 kg)
3x World W medalist Tonya Verbeek (CAN), ’06, ’07, ’11, ’12 DSMI (55 kg)
3x World GR medalist Almat Kebispayev (KAZ) – ’13 DSMI (60 kg)
3x World W medalist Jessica MacDonald (CAN) – ’11, ’14 DSMI (51 kg)
3x World GR medalist Nurmakhan Tinaliyev (KAZ) – ’15 DSMI (130 kg)
2x World GR medalist Badry Khasaia (GEO), ’00 DSMI (76 kg)
2x World FS medalist Khadjimourat Magomedov (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (85 kg)
2x World W medalist Toccara Montgomery (USA) – ’02, ‘03 DSMI (67 kg)
2x World W medalist Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) – ’02, ‘05 DSMI (72 kg)
2x World FS medalist Sammie Henson (USA)- ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2x World GR medalist Karim Gaber (EGY) – ’03 DSMI (96 kg)
2x World W medalist Sally Roberts (USA) – ’03, ’05, ’08 DSMI (59 kg)
2x World W medalist Tina George (USA) – ’04, ‘05 DSMI (55 kg)
2x World FS medalist Joe Williams (USA) – ’05, ‘06 DSMI (84 kg)
2x World GR medalist Justin “Harry” Lester (USA) – ’05, ’06, ’09, ’11 DSMI (66 kg)
2x World GR medalist Mohammed Abdel-Fatah (EGY) – ’05, ‘12 DSMI (96 kg)
2x World W medalist Katie Downing (USA) – ’05, ’07 DSMI (67 kg)
2x World GR medalist Nikolay Gergov (BUL) – ’07. ’08 DSMI (66 kg)
2x World FS medalist Naranbaatar Bayaraa (MGL) – ’08 DSMI (55 kg)
2x World GR medalist Jun Ji-Hyun (KOR) – ’10 DSMI (60 kg)
2x World W medalist Sasha Zhao (CHN) – ’10 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World W medalist Justine Bouchard (CAN) – ’10 DSMI (63 kg)
2x World W medalist Monika Michalik (POL) - ’08, ‘11 DSMI (69 kg)
2x World FS medalist Rizvan Gadzhiev (BLR) – ’11 DSMI (60 kg)
2x World W medalist Iwona Matkowska (POL) – ’11 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World GR medalist Andy Bisek (USA) – ’12, ’14 DSMI (74 kg)
2x World W medalist Alyssa Lampe (USA) – ’12 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World FS medalist Magomed Kurbanaliev (RUS) – ’13 DSMI (66 kg)
2x World W medalist Sun Yanan (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (48 kg)
2x World W medalist Lan Zhang (CHN) – ’14 DSMI (58 kg)
2x World W medalist Alli Ragan (USA) – ’15 DSMI (58 kg)
2x World W medalist Anastasija Grigorjeva (LAT) – ’16 DSMI (63 kg)
2001 World W silver medalist Stephanie Murata (USA) – ’00. ’02, ’06, ‘07 DSMI (62 kg, 51 kg, 48 kg)
1991 World GR silver medalist Shawn Sheldon (USA) – ’99, ’01 DSMI (54 kg)
2007 World GR silver medalist Makoto Sasamoto (JPN) – ’03 DSMI (60 kg)
2007 World GR silver medalist Brad Vering (USA) – ’04, ’07 DSMI (84 kg)
2006 World W silver medalist Lyndsay Belisle (CAN) – ’05 DSMI (51 kg)
2006 World FS silver medalist Mike Zadick (USA) – ’06, ’10 DSMI (60 kg)
2009 World FS silver medalist Jake Herbert (USA) – ’08 DSMI (84 kg)
2005 World GR silver medalist Kim Min-Chul (KOR) – ’10 DSMI (66 kg)
2013 World FS silver medalist Amit Kumar (IND) – ’12 DSMI (55 kg)
2013 World W silver medalist Stacie Anaka (CAN) – ’12 DSMI (67 kg)
2015 World W silver medalist Feng Zhou (CHN) – ’13 DSMI (67 kg)
2017 World GR silver medalist Demeu Zhadrayev (KAZ) – ’15 DSMI (66 kg)
2002 World GR bronze medalist Ali Mollov (BUL) – ’99 DSMI (97 kg)
2001 World FS bronze medalist Alexandre Kontoev (RUS) – ’01 DSMI (54 kg)
2007 World FS bronze medalist Daniel Cormier (USA) – ’01, ‘07 DSMI (97 kg/120 kg)
2006 World FS bronze medalist Donny Pritzlaff (USA) – ’02, ‘05 DSMI (74 kg)
2006 World GR bronze medalist Lindsey Durlacher (USA) – ’02, ’06, ‘07 DSMI (55 kg)
2003 World W bronze medalist Jenny Wong (USA) – ’03 DSMI (51 kg)
2000 World W bronze medalist Jen Ryz (CAN) – ’03 DSMI (55 kg)
2007 World FS bronze medalist Sahit Prezeni (ALB) – ’05 DSMI (60 kg)
2005 World FS bronze medalist Tolly Thompson (USA) – ’02, ’05, ‘06 DSMI (120 kg)
2009 World GR bronze medalist Nurbakyt Tengibayev (KAZ) – ’07, ’08 DSMI (60 kg)
2005 World GR bronze medalist Justin Ruiz (USA) – ’07, ’08, ’10 DSMI (96 kg)
2008 World W bronze medalist Brittanee Laverdure (CAN) – ’09, ’10 DSMI (55 kg)
2003 World W bronze medalist Hui Li (CHN) – ’10, ’13 DSMI (51 kg)
2017 World FS bronze medalist Magomedmurad Gadziev (RUS now POL) – ’11 DSMI (74 kg)
2013 World GR bronze medalist Johan Euren (SWE) – ’11, ’12 DSMI (120 kg)
2015 World W bronze medalist Genevieve Haley (CAN) – ’12 DSMI (51 kg)
2015 World GR bronze medalist Doszhan Kartikov (KAZ) – ’13. ’15 DSMI (74 kg)
2014 World W bronze medalist Leigh Jaynes (USA) – ’15 DSMI (60 kg)
2017 World W bronze medalist Justina Distasio (CAN) – ’15 DSMI (75 kg)
2013 World W bronze medalist Epp Mae (LAT) – ’16 DSMI (75 kg)
2017 World W bronze medalist Becka Leathers (USA) – ’17 DSMI (55 kg)
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