Andy Borodow

Andrew Mark Borodow (born September 16, 1969) is retired male wrestler from Canada. An Olympian, he won both the Maccabiah Games championship and the Commonwealth Games championship, and a silver medal in the Pan American Games. He was inducted into the Canada Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Biography

Borodow was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and is Jewish. He lives in Willowdale, North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He attended and competed for the College of William & Mary and Concordia University. He trained in wrestling under Victor Zilberman.

He won the Canadian Senior National Championship in Freestyle in 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, and 1996. Borodow won the Canadian Senior National Championship in Greco-Roman in 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996.

At the 1989 Maccabiah Games in Israel, Borodow won two gold medals. Borodow won two medals at the 1991 Pan American Games, a silver medal in freestyle and a bronze medal in Greco Roman.

Borodow won bronze medals at the 1993 and 1995 Sumo World Championships, and a silver medal in 1996.

He won two bronze medals at the 1995 Pan American Games, one each in freestyle and Greco Roman.

Borodow was inducted into the Canada Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2016.