Jordan Burroughs

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Jordan Ernest Burroughs (born July 8, 1988, in Camden, New Jersey; hometown Sicklerville, New Jersey) is an American freestyle wrestler and one of the most decorated in his country's history. A lightly recruited New Jersey state champion from Winslow Township High School, he wrestled at the University of Nebraska (2007–2011), where he won NCAA championships in 2009 and 2011, finished with a 128–20 record, and took the 2011 Dan Hodge Trophy as the nation's top college wrestler. Months after graduating he won the 2011 World Championship in Istanbul, and at London 2012 he won the Olympic gold medal at 74 kilograms. Burroughs went on to win six World Championships in all (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2022) plus three World Championship bronze medals, returned to the Olympics at Rio 2016, and opened his senior international career with a United States-record sixty-nine consecutive victories from 2011 to 2014. USA Wrestling lists his residence as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and credits him with fourteen years on Team USA (2011–25).

The record

• Also known as: Jordan Ernest Burroughs

Notes

Sports Encyclopedia roster CTL-SPE-0187. Firsts disposition: NO first asserted. Nebraska's athletics site reports Burroughs was the first Olympian to claim the $250,000 Living the Dream Medal Fund prize, but that claim rests on a single source in this packet, so it is recorded here and kept out of the description under the two-source rule. Curator's Judgment (DRAFT): Burroughs turned a single scholarship offer into the defining American freestyle career of his generation, then stayed at the top long enough to win world titles a decade apart. His advocacy kept wrestling in the Olympics in 2013, a legacy beyond his own medals. Photo: CLEARED — Burroughs vs. Goudarzi 2012 Summer Olympics men's freestyle 74 kg.png, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Commons description explicitly names Jordan Burroughs in the 2012 Olympic final).

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• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — based in
  USA Wrestling's athlete profile lists Burroughs's residence as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sources

• USA Wrestling, 'Jordan Burroughs' — born July 8, 1988, in Camden, N.J.; college Nebraska (2007-2011); high school Winslow Township HS, N.J. (2006); residence Philadelphia, Pa.; Olympic champion 2012 (gold at 74 kg), 2016 Olympic Games 9th; six-time World champion (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022) and three-time World bronze medalist; two-time NCAA champion for Nebraska (2009, 2011); Dan Hodge Trophy winner 2011; years on Team USA 14 (2011-25) — https://www.themat.com/profiles/jordan-burroughs (primary source · build store)
• Team USA, 'Jordan Burroughs' — hometown Sicklerville, NJ; education University of Nebraska-Lincoln; two-time Olympian, one gold medal (London 2012, 74 kg); World Championships medals 9 (6 gold, 3 bronze), most recent gold 2022 (79 kg); U.S.-record 69 straight senior-level wins to start his career, 2011-14 — https://www.teamusa.com/profiles/jordan-burroughs (primary source · build store)
• University of Nebraska Athletics, 'Jordan Burroughs' — won the 74-kilogram Olympic gold medal at London 2012 and FILA World Championships in 2011 and 2013; as a Nebraska senior in 2011 he went 36-0, won his second national title and claimed the Hodge Trophy; his first NCAA crown came in 2009 at 35-0; he completed his college career 128-20; a native of Sicklerville, N.J., he graduated from Nebraska with a sociology degree in May 2011 — https://huskers.com/staff/jordan-burroughs (build store)

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