Kyle Snyder wins first wrestling World Championships since 2022
Kyle Snyder captured his first Wrestling World Championships Gold Medal since 2022 with a 4-2 win over Amir Ali Azarpira on Tuesday. This comes after a 2024 campaign where he did not medal at the Olympics and had a Bronze Medals at the World Championships in 2023.
Snyder returned to the wrestling mat at Final X back in June following a controversial spring when he was arrested in a prostitution case back in May. He eventually plead guilty to a lesser charge.
“Without God and His love and my wife and my family, I would have been in big trouble, just with all that, more than I was,” Snyder said, via FloWrestling. “To have you know, like God’s love is unconditional, and I failed God many times, but he’s never failed me. So I’m just so thankful for him, and I’m so thankful for the opportunity to compete.
“I didn’t even know if I was going to compete at Final X, and then I did, and then, you know, I was able to wrestle well here and just have a great team. So I’m very thankful.”
As a wrestler, Snyder is one of the most decorated American wrestlers in history. He became the youngest American male to win a gold medal at the Olympics when he won in 2016 in Rio while also wrestling in college.
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Snyder also won a silver medal at the 2020 (2021 after postponement) Tokyo Olympics. He did not medal in Paris in 2024, but was on his third straight Olympic team and the expectation is he’ll try to make a fourth for 2028.
To train for freestyle wrestling, Snyder reps the Nittany Lion Wrestling Club, the senior level training center housed inside Penn State. He joined the loaded room following his career at Ohio State.
Snyder has 30 total gold medals across the Olympics, World Championships and more. He also has five silver and seven bronze medals.
At Ohio State, Snyder was a four-time NCAA finalist (once at 197 and three times at 285). He was a runner-up in 2015 and then won three straight titles at heavyweight from 2016-18. Snyder finished his collegiate career with a 75-5 record.