Zahid Valencia

2024-25 Team USA Ranking: No. 4 at 86 kg

Years on Team USA: 7 (2018-25) 

Residence: Stillwater, Okla.  

Club: Titan Mercury Wrestling Club 

Regional Training Center: Cowboy RTC

College: Arizona State 

High School: Bellflower, Calif. (St. John Bosco)  

Born: May 11, 1997, in Bellflower, Calif. 

Height: 6’1”

Senior World Teams

2023 Senior Worlds (Bronze at 92 kg)

Age-Group World Teams 

2017 Junior Worlds (Silver at 84 kg), 2016 Junior Worlds (7th at 84 kg), 2015 Junior Worlds (10th at 84 kg) 

Career Highlights 

• 2023 Final X champion
• 2022 Pan American Championships champion 
• 2019 U.S. Open champion
• Third at 2021 Olympic Team Trials 
• 2017 Junior World silver medalist 
• Two-time Final X runner-up (2018, 2022)
• 2022 U.S. Open runner-up
• Two-time NCAA champion for Arizona State (2018, 2019) 

Career Biography

2025: Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov champion (Bulgaria)…Zagreb Open Ranking Series champion (Croatia)…

2024: Third in U.S. Olympic Team Trials Challenge Tournament…Senior World Team Trials runner-up…20th at Zagreb Open Ranking Series (Croatia)…

2023: Imre Polyk & Jnos Varga Memorial champion (Hungary)…Final X champion…World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion…U.S. Open runner-up…Ibrahim Moustafa International silver medalist (Egypt)…Zagreb Open bronze medalist (Croatia)…

2022: Runner-up at Final X…World Team Trials Challenge champion…Pan American Championships champion… Third at Ivan Yarygin Grand Prix (Russia)…

2021: Third at Olympic Team Trials… Matteo Pellicone International champion (Italy)… Poland Open champion…Third at Henri Deglane Challenge (France)… 

2019: U.S. Open champion… Second at World Team Trials Challenge Tournament… 

2018: Final X runner-up… World Team Trials Challenge Tournament champion… 

2017: UWW Junior World silver medalist… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… UWW Junior Nationals champion…

2016: Seventh at UWW Junior World Championships… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… UWW Junior Nationals champion…

2015: Tenth at UWW Junior Worlds… UWW Junior World Team Trials champion… Second at Grand Prix of Spain…

2014: Third in UWW Junior Nationals in Greco-Roman…

College: Two-time NCAA champion for Arizona State (2018, 2019)… Third in the 2017 NCAA Championships… Coached by Zeke Jones… Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in multi/interdisciplinary studies…

High School: Three-time California state champion (2012, 2014 and 2015)…Coached by Omar Delgado at St. John Bosco High School…First-team ASICS All-American…2015 ASICS High School Wrestler of the Year…

Age-Group Achievements: 2014 Junior Folkstyle Nationals champion… 2013 Cadet Nationals champion in freestyle and Greco-Roman… 2012 Cadet Nationals champion…

Personal: Brother Anthony also competed for Arizona State…

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