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Jan 01, 1971 St. Louis, Missouri, United States 53 years old
Olympic wrestler
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About Sammie Henson
- Samuel "Sammie" Henson (born January 1, 1971) is a World Champion wrestler, winning a gold medal in freestyle for the USA at the 1998 FILA Wrestling World Championships, held in Tehran, Iran.
- He defeated Namig Abdullayev of Azerbaijan to take the gold.
- He was also a silver medalist at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the freestyle 54 kg category, losing to Abdullayev in the finals of that event, held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- At the age of 36, he competed at the 2006 FILA Wrestling World Championships held in Guangzhou, China, earning a bronze medal.
- He was named USA Wrestling's Man of the Year, in 1998. He is formerly the head coach at West Virginia University.
- He is also head coach of the Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club.
- Henson was born in St.
- Louis, Missouri.
