Freestyle
Jordan Burroughs
Jordan Burroughs won Olympic gold at 74 kilograms in London in 2012, and world titles in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021 and 2022. The last two of those were at 79 kilograms, a non-Olympic weight. At the Rio Games in 2016 he finished ninth. The sentence is short because the result was.
He came out of the American collegiate system, which pays for control, and spent his senior career in freestyle, which pays for exposure. The translation is the interesting part of the career, and it is why his name keeps turning up in pieces about the pipeline even when the piece is not about him.
We are not writing a farewell. He has had several of those in other people's headlines. The record above is the part we will stand behind.
Career highlights
- Olympic gold, London 2012, 74 kg
- World champion 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022
- Ninth at the Rio Olympics, 2016