Lee Kemp Email & Phone Number

Lee is an entrepreneur with an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the subject of a film documentary on his life "Wrestled Away: The Lee Kemp Story", released globally in the fall of 2019, is known as one of the greatest wrestlers in United States history, is a keynote speaker, educator, author and seminar presenter who has spoken in athletic and non-athletic settings throughout the United States and abroad. In 2008, at the Beijing Olympics Lee was inducted into the prestigous International Wrestling Hall of Fame (Athlete Category), one of only seven Americans inducted to date.Lee was an Olympian in 1980 and was one of the coaches for the United States Freestyle Team that competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, was America’s first 3x World Champion (1978, 1979, 1982), and for 38 years was the youngest American World champion at age 21 when he won his first title in 1978. Wrestling at the University of Wisconsin, Lee was a 4-time NCAA finalist and a 3-Time NCAA Champion, and holds the 2nd longest Winning Streak in NCAA Division I Collegiate history with an unbeaten string of 109 consecutive matches. As an 18-year-old, true Freshman, a split referee’s decision kept Lee from being the first 4-time NCAA Champion in US history. As an 18-year-old college sophomore Lee defeated the 26 year old international and American legend Dan Gable, in his last competitive match at the Northern Open in November 1975, when Dan was making a comeback attempt to make the US Olympic Team at another Gold for the 1976 Olympic Games, to add to his perfect, unscored upon Gold medal performance at the 1972 Olympic Games.Lee is a frequent, on-air commentator, for ESPN providing analysis for major wrestling events. Lee has worked for several Fortune 500 companies in New York, a major Chicago advertising agency and for 14 years owned and operated a successful Ford Automobile Dealership in Forest Lake, Minnesota. Lee resides in San Luis Obispo, CA and has three adult children.

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