Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Male |
Full name | Wolfgang Nathaniel "Wolf"•Wigo |
Used name | Wolf•Wigo |
Born | 8 May 1973 in Abington, Pennsylvania (USA) |
Measurements | 187 cm / 86 kg |
Affiliations | NYAC, New York (USA) |
NOC | United States |
Wolf Wigo played water polo for the United States at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Olympic Games. He joined the US National Team in 1993, and played with them through 2006. Wigo won gold medals at the 1999 and 2003 Pan American Games and at the 1993 Universiade. He played professionally between 2000-04 with Ethnikos Piraeus in Athina, Greece.
Wigo played in college at Stanford, where he made All-American for four consecutive years. He started coaching as an assistant at Stanford in 1995, and in 2005 became the head coach at UC Santa Barbara. From 1996-2000 he also worked as an equity options trader at the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco. His father, Bruce Wigo, was executive director of USA Water Polo, and later became CEO of the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1996 Summer Olympics | Water Polo (Aquatics) | USA | Wolf Wigo | |||
Water Polo, Men (Olympic) | United States | 7 | ||||
2000 Summer Olympics | Water Polo (Aquatics) | USA | Wolf Wigo | |||
Water Polo, Men (Olympic) | United States | 6 | ||||
2004 Summer Olympics | Water Polo (Aquatics) | USA | Wolf Wigo | |||
Water Polo, Men (Olympic) | United States | 7 |