Sport: Freestyle Wrestling (74 kg/163 pounds)
Hometown: Sicklerville, N.J.
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Resume: Gold medalist at 2012 Olympics and 2011, '13 and '15 world championships; bronze at 2014 world championships.
Need to know: Burroughs began wrestling at age 5 and reached the pinnacle of his sport nearly two decades later in London. Asking him to describe standing atop the medal stand unleashes a stream of adjectives.
“It’s euphoric, it’s intoxicating — I think about endorphins and dopamine being within your system and that feeling of just standing on top of the podium is indescribable,” he said.