Kurt Steven Angle (born December 9, 1968 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania) is an American 1996 Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and a professional wrestler.
He is currently performing for the Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) brand of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
Kurt Angle attended Mt.Lebanon High School (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) and won varsity letters in football and wrestling. In football, he was an All-State linebacker. In wrestling, he placed third at the state finals as a junior, and was the 1987 Pennsylvania State Wrestling Champion as a senior.
Angle had an exemplary career in amateur wrestling. He was a 2-time NCAA Division I champion and a 3-time NCAA Division I All-American while attending Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Angle has a tattoo of the Clarion University Golden Eagle on his upper back. He was also 1987 USA Junior Freestyle champion, 2-time USA Senior Freestyle champion, and 1988 USA FILA Junior World Freestyle champion. Before Angle won his 1996 Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling, he sustained amateur wrestling losses to former PRIDE and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) champion Mark "The Hammer" Coleman and Mixed martial arts (MMA) legend Mark Kerr.
In 1995 Kurt Angle won the gold medal at the World Championship, but he reached the pinnacle of his amateur career one year later, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, winning the 90-100kg (198-220 pound) weight class. In WWE, Angle often gloats that he won the gold medal with "a broken freakin' neck!", exaggerating the severity of a neck injury he had sustained and healed before the event. According to the official rule book of the International Olympic Committee, no competitor will be authorized to participate in an event if they are seriously injured, unless a waiver of release form is signed.
Despite originally being against professional wrestling as Sports Entertainment, Angle later opted to enter the pro-wrestling world. He discovered that an entirely different skill set and level of commitment was necessary to excel in a pro wrestling atmosphere.
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