Douglas Blubaugh
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Full name | Douglas Morlan Blubaugh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1934-12-31)December 31, 1934 Ponca City, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | May 16, 2011(2011-05-16) (aged 76) Tonkawa, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Freestyle and Folkstyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Oklahoma A&M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Douglas Morlan Blubaugh (December 31, 1934 – May 16, 2011) was an American wrestler and Olympic Champion. He competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he became the freestyle Olympic Gold Medalist at welterweight, defeating the legendary 1956 Olympic Champion and 3-time World Champion Iranian Wrestler Emam-Ali Habibi.[1]
Blubaugh, born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, was an AAU Champion and an NCAA Champion in 1957 at Oklahoma State University. In 1959 he won another AAU Championship, winning the Outstanding Wrestler Award. Also in 1959 Blubaugh won a Pan-American Games Gold Medal before he made the 1960 Olympic team. While a student at OSU, Blubaugh was initiated as a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity; in January 2011, he was inducted into the TKE Oklahoma Hall of Fame.[2] In 1979, Blubaugh was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.[3]
For his efforts in Rome, Blubaugh was named the World's Outstanding Wrestler in 1960.[4] Blubaugh later became wrestling coach at Indiana University.[1]
He resided in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, and continued to be an ambassador for the sport of wrestling until his death in a traffic accident on May 16, 2011.[1] He was struck on his motorcycle by a pickup truck, which ran a stop sign.[5] He was 76.
References
- ^ a b c Klingman, Kyle (May 17, 2011). "FLASH: Olympic Champion Doug Blubaugh passes away at 76". themat.com. USA Wrestling. Archived from the original on May 23, 2011. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
- ^ "Helen Ford Wallace — Parties, Etc. — March 27th". The Oklahoman. March 27, 2011. Retrieved October 15, 2022.
- ^ Doug Blubaugh. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
- ^ "Douglas Blubaugh Obituary (2011) Oklahoman". Legacy.com.
- ^ "Doug Blubaugh was tougher than he was good," NewsOK, Barry Tramel, 10 August 2017
External links
- Douglas Blubaugh at the International Wrestling Database
- Douglas Blubaugh at Olympedia
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- 1904 Charles Ericksen (NOR)
- 1924 Hermann Gehri (SUI)
- 1928 Arvo Haavisto (FIN)
- 1932 Jack van Bebber (USA)
- 1936 Frank Lewis (USA)
- 1948 Yaşar Doğu (TUR)
- 1952 William Smith (USA)
- 1956 Mitsuo Ikeda (JPN)
- 1960 Douglas Blubaugh (USA)
- 1964 İsmail Ogan (TUR)
- 1968 Mahmut Atalay (TUR)
- 1972 Wayne Wells (USA)
- 1976 Jiichiro Date (JPN)
- 1980 Valentin Raychev (BUL)
- 1984 David Schultz (USA)
- 1988 Kenny Monday (USA)
- 1992 Park Jang-soon (KOR)
- 1996 Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2000 Brandon Slay (USA)
- 2004 Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2008 Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2012 Jordan Burroughs (USA)
- 2016 Hassan Yazdani (IRI)
- 2020 Zaurbek Sidakov (ROC)
- 1904: 71.67 kg
- 1924–1936: 72 kg
- 1948–1960: 73 kg
- 1964–1968: 78 kg
- 1972–1996: 74 kg
- 2000: 76 kg
- 2004–present: 74 kg
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