Payton Jacobson

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 87 kg/191.8 pounds

Years on Team USA: 3 (2022-23, 2024-25, 2025-26)

Residence: Marquette, Mich.

Regional Training Center: NMU-National Training Center

Club: New York AC

Personal Coach: Jeremy Reeves

High School: Elkhorn, Wis. (Elkhorn Area High School)

Born: September 12, 2002

Olympic Teams

2024 Olympic Games (15th at 87 kg)

Senior World Teams 

2025 Senior Worlds (Seventh at 87 kg)

Age-Group World Teams

2025 U23 Worlds (Bronze at 87 kg), 2024 U23 Worlds (Fifth at 87 kg), 2023 U23 Worlds (13th at 77 kg), 2022 U20 Worlds (Eighth at 77 kg)

Career Highlights 

• 2024 Olympian
• 2025 Senior World Team member
• 2025 U23 World bronze medalist
• Four-time age group World Team member
• 2025 Pan American Games champion
• 2025 Pan American Championships gold medalist
• 2021 U20 Pan American Championships silver medalist

Career Biography

2026: Placed fifth at Zagreb Open Ranking Series event in Croatia

2025: Placed seventh at World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia … Bronze medalist at U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia … Gold medalist at Pan American Games in Asuncion, Paraguay … Gold medalist at Pan American Championships in Monterrey, Mexico … U.S. Open champion

2024: Placed 15th at 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France … Placed fifth at U23 World Championships in Tirana, Albania … Bronze medalist at Valmar Cup in Porec, Croatia … U.S. Olympic Team Trials champion

2023: Placed 13th at U23 World Championships in Tirana, Albania … Gold medalist at Bill Farrell Memorial International … Senior Nationals runner-up … Finished fourth at Final X … Senior World Team Trials Challenge runner-up … Placed third at U.S. Open

2022: Placed eighth at U20 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria … U20 World Team Trials champion … Placed third at World Team Trials Challenge … Placed third at U.S. Open … Placed third in U20 at U.S. Open

2021: Silver medalist at U20 Pan American Championships in Oaxtepec, Mexico … UWW Junior Nationals runner-up

2020: UWW Junior Nationals champion

2018: Placed third at UWW Cadet Nationals

College: Wrestles at Northern Michigan University

High School: 2019 Wisconsin state placer for Elkhorn Area

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2023 U23 National champion … Placed fourth at 2017 Cadet Nationals … Placed third at 2017 Northern Plains Regional in Greco-Roman and freestyle … 2017 Dominate in the Dells runner-up … Placed fifth at 2015 Northern Plains Regional in Greco-Roman and freestyle … Placed fourth at 2015 Dominate in the Dells

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