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| Birth name | Mark Albert Fuller | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 25, 1961 Roseville, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Lincoln, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Sunkist Kids Wrestling Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark Albert Fuller (born March 25, 1961) was an American wrestler in Greco-Roman wrestling.
A member of the Sunkids Kids Wrestling Club, Fuller competed on four different USA Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling teams (1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992) and was the first American wrestler to make four Olympic teams. [1] He would have competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics, but was prevented by the United States boycott of the event. He came in second in the 1983 Pan American Games competition and first at the 1991 Pan American Games. Fuller was also a two-time World Champion at the World Junior Wrestling Championships.
Fuller is a Latter-day Saint. He is married to Heidi Fuller and is the father of four children.
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