Gene Davis (wrestler)

Gene Davis

Personal information
Full name	Eugene Lee Davis
Born	November 17, 1945 (1945-11-17) (age 71) Missoula, Montana, U.S.
Medal record Men's freestyle wrestling Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1976 Montreal Featherweight

Eugene Lee "Gene" Davis (born November 17, 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.