What kind of wrestling did Kurt Angle win his Olympic medals for?
Kurt Angle was involved in amateur wrestling during both high school and college. In college, he won numerous accolades, including being a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I champion. After graduating, he won the 1995 World Championship tournament. Angle then competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he won a gold medal in heavyweight freestyle wrestling. Freestyle wrestling is a style of amateur wrestling that is practiced throughout the world. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic games. It is, along with track and field, one of the oldest sports in history. American high school and college wrestling is conducted under different rules and termed collegiate wrestling. Freestyle wrestling, like its American counterpart, collegiate (also known as scholastic or folkstyle) wrestling, has its greatest origins in catch-as-catch-can wrestling and the prime victory condition in both styles invo
