Jordan Burroughs

In 2016, Burroughs placed ninth at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Unlike previous years, including years in which he was injured, he did not earn a medal. In an interview shortly afterwards, Burroughs reflected on his performance:

In a 2013 interview, when Burroughs was asked when he started wrestling, he explained:

After his final year, Burroughs won the Hodge Trophy, awarded each year by WIN Magazine to the nation's most dominant college wrestler. Burroughs finished his college career with a 128–20 overall record, for the fifth-most wins in Nebraska history.

In addition, Burroughs's medal-winning performances were complicated by injuries in both 2013 and 2014. In 2013, he broke his ankle just four weeks before the tournament started, and he competed with five screws and a plate attached to his ankle. And in 2014, he sprained his medial collateral ligament in his opening match against Augusto Midana of Guinea-Bissau. Nevertheless, he continued to compete.

Burroughs won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He also won gold medals at the world championships in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017, and he won bronze medals at the world championships in 2014 and 2018.

When Burroughs won a gold medal in 2011, he did so immediately after completing his final NCAA Division I wrestling season, making him only the fourth wrestler ever to win an NCAA Division I title and a world title in the same year.

Jordan Ernest Burroughs (born July 8, 1988) is an American freestyle wrestler and former folkstyle wrestler. In freestyle wrestling, Burroughs is an Olympic champion and four-time world champion. In folkstyle wrestling, Burroughs was a two-time NCAA Division I national champion, and was awarded the Dan Hodge Trophy as the most outstanding wrestler in college wrestling.