Height 1.57 m Club Gator USOEC Marquette Weight 55 kg | Name Spenser Mango Siblings Ryan Mango Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born July 6, 1986 (age 38) ( 1986-07-06 ) St. Louis, Missouri, United States Similar People Sam Hazewinkel, Brent Metcalf, Ellis Coleman, Mingiyan Arturovich Semenov, Dremiel Byers | ||
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Spenser Mango (born July 6, 1986) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler. He has represented the United States in numerous international competitions including the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he competed in the 55 kg weight class. He won his first match against Romanian, Virgil Munteanu, before losing the South Korean, Park Eun-chul.
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Coming into the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was the top-ranked American in his weight class (55 kg/121 lbs). He qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics after winning at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Mango lost in the preliminary round against Azerbaijan's Rovshan Bayramov 0–3 without any technical points scored. He was placed in the first repechage round, where he lost to Russia's Mingiyan Semenov without technical points again, preventing him from having a chance of achieving a medal.
Mango attended Northern Michigan University and is currently in the US Army World Class Athlete Program.
He announces his retirement from wrestling April 9 at the 2016 Olympic Team Trials by taking off his shoes and leaving them in the center of the mat.
Short time wrestling podcast episode 181 2 time olympian spenser mango
