2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 97 kg

Years on Team USA: 11 (2015-26)

Residence: State College, Pa.

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coaches: Cael Sanderson, Jake Varner

Regional Training Center: Nittany Lion WC

College: Ohio State

High School: Olney, Md. (Our Lady of Good Counsel); Colorado Springs, Colo. (Coronado)

Born: Nov. 20, 1995, in Silver Spring, Maryland

Height: 5-11

Olympic Games

2024 Paris Olympic Games (5th at 97 kg), 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (Silver at 97 kg), 2016 Rio Olympic Games (Gold at 97 kg)

Senior World Teams

2023 Senior World Championships (Bronze at 97 kg), 2022 Senior World Championships (Gold at 97 kg), 2021 Senior World Championships (Silver at 97 kg), 2019 Senior World Championships (Bronze at 97 kg), 2018 Senior World Championships (Silver at 97 kg), 2017 Senior World Championships (Gold at 97 kg), 2015 Senior World Championships (Gold at 97 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2013 Junior World Championships (Gold at 96 kg), 2014 Junior World Championships (Bronze at 96 kg)

Career Highlights

2016 Rio Olympic gold medalist
2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist
Fifth at 2024 Paris Olympic Games
Three-time World champion (2015, 2017, 2022)
Two-time World silver medalist (2018, 2021)
Two-time World bronze medalist (2019, 2023)
2013 Junior World Champion
2014 Junior World bronze medalist
Seven-time Pan American Championships gold medalist (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Three-time Pan American Games champion (2015, 2019, 2023)
Three-time NCAA champion for Ohio State (2016-18) and four-time finalist

Career Biography

2025: Zagreb Open Ranking Series champion (Croatia)…Muhamet Malo Ranking Series bronze medalist (Albania)…Final X champion…CLAW U.S. Open champion…

2024: Fifth at Paris Olympic games…Pan American Championships gold medalist (Mexico)…U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion…Bill Farrell Memorial International champion…Zagreb Open Ranking Series silver medalist (Croatia)…

2023: World bronze medalist... Imre Polyak & Janos Varga Memorial champion (Hungary), Final X champion…Pan American Championships champion…Pan American Games champion…Dan Kolov International champion (Bulgaria)…Zagreb Open champion (Croatia)….

2022: World champion…Final X champion…Pan American Championships champion…Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix champion (Russia)

2021: Olympic Silver Medalist…World silver medalist…U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion…Pan American Championships champion...

2020: Pan American Championships champion…Bronze at Matteo Pellicone International…Sixth at Senior Nationals…

2019: World bronze medalist…Final X champion…Pan American Championships gold medalist…Pan American Games gold medalist…Dan Kolov International champion (Bulgaria)…Yasar Dogu champion (Turkey)…Bill Farrell International champion…Ninth at Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia)…

2018: World silver medalist…Third at Yasar Dogu International (Turkey)…Final X champion…Freestyle World Cup Team member…Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix champion (Russia)

2017: World champion…Grand Prix of Spain gold medalist…U.S. World Team Trials champion…Pan American gold medalist…Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia) gold medalist…

2016: Olympic gold medalist…Grand Prix of Germany bronze medalist…Olympic Team Trials champion…Freestyle World Cup Team member (fourth) …Alexander Medved International (Belarus) bronze medalist…Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia) bronze medalist…

2015: World champion…Pan American Games gold medalist…U.S. World Team Trials champion…U.S. Open champion…

2014: UWW Junior World bronze medalist …UWW Junior World Team Trials champion…UWW Junior Freestyle Nationals champion …Cerro Pelado International Junior champion (Cuba)…

2013: Junior World champion…UWW Junior World Team Trials champion…UWW Junior Nationals champion…Third in Henri Deglane Challenge (France) …

College: Three-time NCAA champion for Ohio State (2016-18)…Second at 2015 NCAA Championships…Two-time Big Ten champion (2016-17)…Second in 2015 and 2018 Big Ten Championships…Member of 2015 NCAA championship team, the first in Ohio State history…Coached by Tom Ryan…Majored in Sport Industry with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies…

High School: Compiled 179-0 record in three seasons for Our Lady of Good Counsel under Skylar Saar…Three-time Prep School National champion…Three-time MPSSAA State champion…Attended Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, Colo. as a senior…Graduated from Coronado in 2014…Resident-athlete at U.S. Olympic Training Center during 2013-14 school year…

Age-Group Achievements: 2012 Junior Nationals champion in Greco-Roman and third in freestyle…Freestyle Junior World Team Trials runner-up (2012) …Third at FILA Junior Nationals (2012) …Greco-Roman Cadet Fargo Nationals runner-up (2011) …Freestyle Cadet National champion (2011)…

Personal: Son of Tricia and Steve Snyder…Has one sister, Megan, and two brothers, Steve and Kevin…Married to Maddie Pack…Started wrestling at the age of five…

Hobbies: Playing basketball…Reading the Bible…Studying Russian…

Awards: 2017 Team USA Male Olympic Athlete of the Year…2017 AAU Sullivan Award winner as nation’s top amateur athlete…. 2015 USA Wrestling Freestyle Wrestler of the Year…2015 U.S. Open Outstanding Wrestler…2013 ASICS High School Wrestler of the Year…

Twitter: @Snyder_man45

Instagram: @snyderman45

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