Spencer Lee

About

Spencer Richard Lee (born October 14, 1998) is an American freestyle and former folkstyle wrestler who competes at 57 kilograms. In freestyle, he earned a silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics, and is a three-time US World and Olympic Team Member and three-time age-group world champion.
In folkstyle, Lee won the James E. Sullivan Award and the Dan Hodge Trophy twice, as well as three NCAA Division I national championships out of the University of Iowa. Lee was often considered one of the most dominant athletes in college athletics.

Lee was born in Denver, Colorado, but grew up in Saegertown, Pennsylvania before moving to Murrysville, where he attended Franklin Regional High School.
While in high school, Lee became a three-time PIAA Class AAA state champion and recorded 144 wins before suffering his first and only loss in a dramatic upset while going for a fourth state title. The wrestler he lost to, Austin DeSanto, would eventually become his college teammate. In freestyle wrestling, Lee became a two-time U20 World champion and a U17 World champion during his high school years.
Before his senior year, Lee committed to wrestle at the University of Iowa…