Patrick Smith

2023-24 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 72 kg

Years on Team USA: 10 (2014-24)

Residence: Minneapolis, Minn.

Club: Minnesota Storm

Personal Coaches: Dan Chandler and Brandon Paulson

College: Minnesota

Regional Training Center: Minnesota RTC

High School: Chaska (Minn.)

Born: Dec. 19, 1990

Height: 5-8

Past Senior World Teams

2021 Senior Worlds (19th at 72 kg) 2019 Senior Worlds (23rd at 77 kg), 2017 Senior Worlds (15th at 71 kg)

Past Age-Group World Teams

2017 World University Championships (silver at 71 kg)

Career Highlights:

• 2023 World team member
• 2021 World team member
• 2019 Pan American Games Champion
• 2019 World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion
• 2017 U.S. World Team Trials champion
• Four-time Pan American champion (2015, 16, 17, 22)
• Nine-time U.S. National Team member
• 2014 University World silver medalist
• 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials runner-up
• 2017 U.S. Open champion
• Two-time U.S. World Team Trials runner-up (2014-15)
• Four-time U.S. Open runner-up (2014-16, 2023)

Career Biography:

2023: Final X champion…Senior World Team Trials Challenge champion…USMC U.S. Open runner-up…Thirteenth at Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial.

2022: Final X Stillwater champion…Senior Pan American champion…Bill Farrell Memorial International champion…Fifth at Slavin, Halfen, Weinberg, Gottfreund Memorial in freestyle at 79 kg…Slavin, Halfen, Weinberg, Gottfreund Memorial champion in Greco-Roman at 77 kg.

2021: Senior World team member… Fourth at 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Challenge Tournament… 19th at Senior Worlds… Fifth at Matteo Pellicone.

2020: Second at Pan American Championships… Second at Senior Nationals… 14th at Matteo Pellicone… Third at Senior Pan-American Olympic Games Qualifier.

2019: 23rd at World Championships... Pan American Games champion… Final X champion... World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion... U.S. Open runner-up...  Dave Schultz Memorial International champion… Fifth place at Thor Masters (Denmark).

2018: Arvo Haavisto Cup (Finland) silver medalist… Haparanda Cup (Sweden) bronze medalist… SA Larikov bronze medalist...U.S. Open runner-up…Third at World Team Trials.

2017: U.S. World Team Trials champion… Pan American champion… U.S. Open champion…Third at Thor Masters.

2016: Second in U.S. Olympic Team Trials … Third at Non-Olympic Weight World Team Trials … Gold at Pan American championships… Second in U.S. Open… Ninth in the Grand Prix Zagreb Open.

2015: Second in U.S. World Team Trials… Second in U.S. Open… Pan American champion.

2014: Second in Phase II World Team Trials… Second in University World Championships… Second in U.S. Open.

2012: Second in Final Olympic Trials Qualifier.

2011: Fourth in Sunkist Kids International Open… Fourth in U.S. Open.

2010: University Nationals champion.

College: University of Minnesota, coached by J Robinson.

High School: Second in 2009 state tournament and third in 2008 for Chaska High School…Coached by Mike Houck and Ned Shuck.

Age-group Achievements: Two-time Junior Greco-Roman All-American… 2008 NHSCA Junior Folkstyle All-American.

Personal: Son of Harry and Sue Smith… Has an older brother, Zach, and an older sister, Sarah.