Tom Brands

Tom Brands is a former Olympic and World Champion wrestler and one of the most successful athletes in University of Iowa history. He was a 4-time NCAA All-American and 3-time NCAA Champion for the Hawkeyes. On the international stage, Brands was a 1996 Olympic gold medalist, 1993 World Champion, and 1995 Pan American Games champion. He was a 3-time U.S. World Team member (1993, 1994, 1995) and a 4-time U.S. Open champion (1993–1996), cementing his legacy as one of the top American wrestlers of the 1990s.