Mark Albert Fuller (born March 25, 1961) was an American wrestler in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Birth name | Mark Albert Fuller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Roseville, California, U.S. | March 25, 1961||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Home town | Lincoln, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team | USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wrestling career
editA member of the Sunkids Kids Wrestling Club, Fuller competed on four different USA Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling teams (1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992) and was the first American wrestler to make four Olympic teams.[1] He would have competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but was prevented by the United States boycott of the event. He came in second in the 1983 Pan American Games competition and first at the 1991 Pan American Games. Fuller was also a two-time World Champion at the World Junior Wrestling Championships.
Personal life
editFuller is a Latter-day Saint. He is married to Heidi Fuller and is the father of four children.
References
edit- ^ Myers, Richard. (January 12, 2006). Former Lincoln wrestler rose to Olympic glory. Gold Country Media. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
Sources
edit- Mark Fuller at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 2009 Deseret Morning News Church Almanac (Salt Lake City, Utah: Deseret Morning News, 2008) p. 326.
External links
edit- Mark Albert Fuller at the International Wrestling Database
- Mark Albert Fuller at Olympedia