Matt Ghaffari
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- Organization:
- Wrestling
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- Year:
- Class of 2006
Ghaffari (1980-84) qualified for the 1984 NCAA Championships after posting a single-season CSU record 14 pins ... Represented USA at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics in Greco-Roman, winning a silver medal in the latter event ... Three-time World Championship medalist ... Inducted into National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2013.
He holds three American records, the World and Olympic total medals, in addition to being a four-time World Cup Champion, and nine-time Pan-American Champion. He is a two-time US Olympian and Olympic team alternate, winning two World Silver medals, one World Bronze medal, and one Olympic Silver medal from the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
In 2003, he was inducted into the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame followed by an induction into the Cleveland State University Hall of Fame in 2006. Ten years laters in 2013, he became a distinguished member of the prestigious USA National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
