Sport: Wrestling (Greco-Roman)
Age: 37
Local connection: Trains at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs and is in the Army, stationed at Fort Carson.
Previous Olympics: 2008 (seventh).
How made Team USA: Won Olympic trials meet in April.
2012: In addition to winning at the trials, Byers won the Dave Schultz Memorial and the U.S. Open.
Career highlights: Byers spent much of his career dueling with fellow heavyweight Rulon Gardner to qualify for world championships and Olympic Games, finally . He won a gold medal at the 2002 world championships, a bronze at the worlds in 2007 and a world silver in 2009. Byers , is a Sergeant First Class in the Army and is a member of the Army’s World Class Athlete Program. He is in his 13th year on the U.S. national team.
