Dave Schultz (amateur wrestler)

Dave Schultz

Personal information
Full name	David Lesley Schultz
Born	(1959-06-06)June 6, 1959 Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Died	January 26, 1996(1996-01-26) (aged 36) Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Country	United States
Sport	Wrestling
Event(s)	Freestyle and Folkstyle
College team	Oklahoma Oklahoma State
Club	Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club
Team	USA
Medal record Men's freestyle wrestling Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles 74 kg World Championships 1983 Kyiv 74 kg 1985 Budapest 74 kg 1987 Clermont 74 kg 1993 Toronto 74 kg 1982 Edmonton 82 kg 1986 Budapest 74 kg Pan American Games 1987 Indianapolis 74 kg 1995 Mar del Plata 74 kg Goodwill Games 1986 Moscow 74 kg 1994 St. Petersburg 74 kg Collegiate Wrestling NCAA Division I Championships Representing the Oklahoma Sooners 1982 Ames 167 lb 1981 Princeton 158 lb Representing the Oklahoma State Cowboys 1978 College Park 150 lb

David Lesley Schultz (June 6, 1959 – January 26, 1996) was an American Olympic and World champion freestyle wrestler, and a seven-time World and Olympic medalist. He coached individuals and teams at the college level and also privately.

Dave and his brother, wrestler Mark Schultz, both won gold at the same Olympics (1984). The Schultzes were one of three sets of brothers (the others are Buvaisar and Adam Saitiev, and Anatoli and Sergei Beloglazov) to win both World and Olympic championships. The Schultz brothers have won more NCAA, World, and Olympic titles than any other American brother combination in history.

Schultz was employed as a coach by John du Pont, a multimillionaire philanthropist who sponsored the private Foxcatcher wrestling team at an amateur sports center known as Foxcatcher Farm that he set up on his estate in Pennsylvania. In January 1996, du Pont murdered Schultz.