Lloyd Keaser

Personal information
Born	February 9, 1950 (1950-02-09) (age 73) Pumphrey, Maryland, U.S.
Medal record Men's freestyle wrestling Representing  United States Olympic Games 1976 Montreal 68 kg World Championships 1973 Tehran 68 kg World Cup 1973 Toledo 68 kg Collegiate Wrestling Representing Navy NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships 1972 College Park 142 lb

Lloyd Weldon "Butch" Keaser (born February 9, 1950) is an American former wrestler who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics, for the United States.

Keaser was born in Pumphrey, Maryland. He wrestled for the United States Naval Academy and was a two-time NCAA All American. He was an alternate on the 1972 Olympic team to Dan Gable. In 1973, he won a gold medal at the world championships in freestyle wrestling and became the first African-American to achieve this honor. In 1976, he won the silver medal at the Montreal Olympics. Keaser is now the wrestling coach at Wilde Lake High School in Columbia, Maryland.

In 1996, Keaser was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.^[1]

Bibliography

• Moffat, James V. 2007. Wrestlers At The Trials. Exit Zero Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9799051-0-0
• Hammond, Jairus K. & Little, Lisa. 2008. The African American Wrestling Experience. National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
• Moore, Roger. 2009. Glory Beyond the Sport: Wrestling and the Military. National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum

References

External links

• Lloyd Keaser at Olympics.com
• Butch Keaser at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)