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Chris Taylor. June 13, 1950 - June 30, 1979. Chris Taylor had enormous impact on the sport of wrestling—literally and figuratively. Taylor will go down as the heaviest wrestling competitor in Olympic Games history, but his influence on the sport remains larger than life. Competing during an era with no weight limitations for the heavyweight ...
Nov 8, 2021 · Iowa State heavyweight wrestler Chris Taylor, the Cyclones’ “Gentle Giant” had an enormous impact on the sport of wrestling, literally and figuratively. He will go down as the heaviest wrestling competitor in Olympic Games history, but his influence on the sport remains larger than life.
Chris J. “Big T” Taylor. American freestyle wrestler who competed at 1972 Munich Olympics. At 412 pounds he was the heaviest Olympian ever. The 6 ft 5 in Taylor, wrestled for Dowagiac High School in Dowagiac, Michigan, Iowa State University (winning the NCAA heavyweight championship in 1972), and won the bronze medal for at the 1972 ...
Jul 13, 2022 · The Gentle Giant pinned his way through the NCAA tournament in 1973, becoming only the second wrestler to pin his way through a 32-man bracket. Taylor’s overall career record at Iowa State was 87-0-1 with 70 pins. After he won his first NCAA title in 1972, Taylor pulled off a rare double for the United States by wrestling in the freestyle and ...
Taylor was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2012. In a state crazy for wrestling, Taylor stood out more than most. As a 6’5″ wrestler tipping the scales at over 400 pounds, Taylor towered over collegiate opponents. The only scale big enough to weigh Taylor was the livestock scale in the meat department.
Sep 3, 1972 · We often talk about big stars in sport, but very few of them live up to the billing in the way that Chris Taylor did. He was big in size rather than fame. Taylor, a wrestler who competed, not surprisingly, in the super-heavyweight category, weighted in at a hefty 186.88kg, and posed some very difficult questions for his opponents.
