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Steve Fraser

Personal information
Full name	Steven Howard Fraser
Born	(1958-03-23) March 23, 1958 (age 66) Hazel Park, Michigan, U.S.
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Wrestling
Weight class	90 kg
Event(s)	Greco-Roman and Folkstyle
College team	Michigan
Club	Michigan Wrestling Club
Team	USA
Coached by	Ronald Finley
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman wrestling Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles 90 kg Pan American Games 1983 Caracas 90 kg

Steven Howard "Steve" Fraser (born March 23, 1958) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler and coach. He was the 1984 Olympic Games gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, in the 90 kg weight class. Fraser's gold medal was the first ever for the United States in Greco-Roman wrestling.

A native of Hazel Park, Michigan, Fraser was a Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) state wrestling champion. In college he was a two-time All-American wrestler, wrestling at the University of Michigan. Fraser's gold medal was the first ever Olympic gold in Greco-Roman wrestling for the United States. The next night following Fraser's gold medal performance, Jeff Blatnick won a second gold medal for the U.S. Greco-Roman Olympic team. Fraser served as coach of the U.S. Greco Roman team from 1997 to 2014. Rulon Gardner who was a gold medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games, credits Fraser's instruction as a large part of his wrestling success. The year Fraser competed at the Olympics in 1984, the United States won 9 gold medals in wrestling, the most at a single Olympics in American wrestling history.

Fraser was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member in 1994 and the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 2008.

References

1. Steve Fraser - Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
2. Ex-Lions Moore, Murray among Michigan Sports Hall of Fame inductees

External links

• Steven Fraser at Olympics.com
• Steve Fraser at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

v t e Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman light heavyweight
1908:  Verner Weckman (FIN) 1912: no winner 1920:  Claes Johanson (SWE) 1924:  Carl Westergren (SWE) 1928:  Ibrahim Moustafa (EGY) 1932:  Rudolf Svensson (SWE) 1936:  Axel Cadier (SWE) 1948:  Karl-Erik Nilsson (SWE) 1952:  Kelpo Gröndahl (FIN) 1956:  Valentin Nikolayev (URS) 1960:  Tevfik Kış (TUR) 1964:  Boyan Radev (BUL) 1968:  Boyan Radev (BUL) 1972:  Valery Rezantsev (URS) 1976:  Valery Rezantsev (URS) 1980:  Norbert Növényi (HUN) 1984:  Steve Fraser (USA) 1988:  Atanas Komchev (BUL) 1992:  Maik Bullmann (GER) 1996:  Vyacheslav Oliynyk (UKR)
1908: 93 kg 1912–1928: 82.5 kg 1932–1960: 87 kg 1964–1968: 97 kg 1972–1996: 90 kg

v t e 2012 USA Olympic Wrestling Team
Men's Greco-Roman	Spenser Mango Ellis Coleman Justin Lester Ben Provisor Chas Betts Dremiel Byers
Women's freestyle	Clarissa Chun Kelsey Campbell Elena Pirozhkova Ali Bernard
Men's freestyle	Sam Hazewinkel Coleman Scott Jared Frayer Jordan Burroughs Jake Herbert Jake Varner Tervel Dlagnev
Men's Greco-Roman coaches	Steve Fraser Momir Petković Ike Anderson
Women's freestyle coaches	Terry Steiner Vladislav Izboinikov Erin Tomeo
Men's freestyle coaches	Zeke Jones Brandon Slay Bill Zadick

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