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Frank Kugler won four Olympics medals in freestyle wrestling, weightlifting and tug of war at St Louis in 1904, making him the only competitor to win a medal in three different sports at the same Games. He claimed a silver medal in the heavyweight category in wrestling, bronze in the two hand lift and all-around dumbbell events in weightlifting and another bronze in the tug of war competition as a member of Southwest Turnverein of Saint Louis No. 2 team. He is recognised as an American by the International Olympic Committee although he was a German national at the time of the Games.
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Vervoort is Belgium’s Paralympic Athlete of the Year
Saturday, 22 December 2012
December 22 - Wheelchair racer Marieke Vervoort has won the Belgian Paralympic Athlete of the Year award. The accolade provides a fitting conclusion to a year which saw the 33-year-old T52 athlete pick up two Paralympic medals.
First, she raced to silver behind Michelle Stilwell of Canada in the women's 200 metres event.
Then, four days later in London's Olympic Stadium, the Belgian athlete went one better, holding off the fast-finishing Stilwell to take gold in the T52 100m in a Paralympic record time of 19.69sec.
Marieke Vervoort received the Belgian Paralympic Athlete of the Year award from Kim ClijstersVervoort said the trophy, which she received from Belgian tennis legend Kim Clijsters, meant the world to her.
Her closest rivals for the award, which is based on the votes of Belgian sports journalists, were Michèle George, a Para-equestrian athlete, and cyclist Wim Decleir.
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Denmark's Poul-Erik Høyer is the only non-Asian badminton player ever to win an Olympic gold medal, giving him a unique place in the sport's history. He is now set to become the first European President of the Badminton World Federation for 20 years with the aim of uniting the two continents, as he tells James Crook in this exclusive interview
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