Ari Taub (wrestler)
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| Full name | Ari Michael Taub | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | Canada | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | January 19, 1971 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Attorney | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 122 kg (269 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
| Children | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Canada | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Super-heavyweight[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Ari Michael Taub (born January 19, 1971) is a Canadian Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler.[2] He won two gold medals at the 1989 Maccabiah Games in Israel, and a gold medal at the 2007 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship. He competed for Canada in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Taub was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, later lived in Vancouver, and is Jewish.[3][4][5] He grew up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and went to Henry Wise Wood High School.[5] His height is 191 cm (6 ft 3 in), and he weighs 122 kg (269 lb).[6] He attended York University and Simon Fraser University (BBA, Finance '94) and UBC Law School ('96), and is an attorney.[7][8][9][5] After law school he articled for a year at Ladner Downs in Vancouver.[5]
He is married to the former Sarah Howell, and his four children are two sets of identical twins, the elder two being girls and the younger two being boys.[5][8] The two boys, Conaire and Nick Taub, are volleyball players and were flag bearers as well as competitors for the Team Canada under-18 men's team at the 2022 Maccabiah Games; they also competed at the 2017 Maccabiah Games.[10] He resides in Calgary, where he runs his own law firm, specializing in corporate and real-estate law, Taub Law.[8][5][11]
