William H. Scherr

(1961- ) lived in Lincoln. Athlete, won bronze medal in 220-pound heavyweight division of freestyle wrestling at 1988 Olympics, earned five consecutive world-class medals from 1986 to 1990, elected to amateur National Wrestling Hall of Fame at Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1998. Consult Lincoln Journal, December 4, 1980, p. 31 and Sports Illustrated, Vol 69, September 14, 1988 Special Issue, pp. 178-180 and David Wallechinsky, The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Little, Brown, 1996) 787.

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