Kyle Snyder (born November 20, 1995) is an American amateur
wrestler who amassed a 179-0 record in his first three years of high schoolbefore
becoming the youngest American in over 20 years to win a FILA Junior World
championship in August 2013. Snyder was coached by two former World Champions
during his gold medal match: Bill Zadick of the Iowa Hawkeyes, who was a
college teammate of Jeff McGinness, the youngest ever American FILA Junior
World Champion who won the tournament in 1992,[5] as well as Zeke Jones.
Although Snyder was unable to repeat his gold medal run in 2014, he still
managed to bring a bronze medal back home, and in the process became the
youngest two-time Junior World medalist in American history.Even before
bringing home his Junior World title in 2013, Snyder had already decided to
forgo his senior year of high school competition and instead compete
internationally as a resident athlete at the United States Olympic Training
Center beginning in the fall of 2013] And then in the spring of 2014, at just
18 years of age, Snyder was selected to represent Team USA as the youngest-ever
member of the Beat the Streets All-Star team that faced off against top-ranked
wrestlers from across the world, where he wrestled alongside fellow Americans
with multiple NCAA championships and Olympic gold medals such as David Taylor,
Brent Metcalf and Jordan Burrough Snyder, who competes internationally at 96
kg, lost a tightly contested exhibition match 6-3against Khadzhimurat Gatsalov,
the #1 ranked wrestler in the world at 120 kg who at 31 years old has won five
World Championships and an Olympic gold medal.
