Gene Davis (wrestler)
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Competitor for the United States | ||
Men's Freestyle wrestling | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1976 Montreal | Featherweight |
Gene Davis (born 1945) is an American wrestler. He was born in Missoula, Montana. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1976.[1]
Gene currently serves as the Director of Wrestling at "Athletes in Action", a Christian-based sports organization. In 2014, he endorsed the book "Faith and Wrestling: How the Role of a Wrestler Mirrors the Christian Life" by author Michael Fessler. Gene's endorsement reads, “My belief has always been that wrestling is a microcosm of life. Most of the things that we are going to experience in life are going to be experienced in a wrestling career. Michael does an excellent job in paralleling the relationship between faith and wrestling. His book expresses the importance of developing the total athlete—spiritually, physically, emotionally, and socially. I look forward to the day when people (including wrestlers) from ‘every nation, tribe, people and language’ will gather to worship our God. (Revelation 7:9, 11).”
References
M. Fessler, Faith and Wrestling: How the Role of a Wrestler Mirrors the Christian Life, (Bloomington, IN: Westbow Press, 2015). - originally published with Crossbooks Publishing in 2014.
- ↑ "Gene Davis". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 March 2012.