• Recipient of the Sullivan Award (2001)
• Recipient of the Jesse Owens Award (2001)
• ESPY for U.S. Olympic Male Athlete of the Year (2001)
• U.S. Olympic Committee Sportsman of the Year (2001)
• Member of National Wrestling Hall of Fame
Gardner was born in Afton, Wyoming and attended Star Valley High School, where he was a three-sport letterman in wrestling, football and track and field. He attended junior college at Ricks College where, as a sophomore, he won the NJNCAA national heavyweight wrestling division. He would later attend and graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2005, Gardner published his autobiography entitled “Never Stop Pushing: My Life from a Wyoming Farm to the Olympic Medals Stand”.
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