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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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London 2012 bronze medallist to have surgery on injured knee
Thursday, 15 November 2012
November 15 - Paralympic bronze medallist Ben Quilter is to have an operation on the knee injury which he believes hampered his performance at London 2012. The 31-year-old judoka from Brighton won bronze in the -60kg category despite rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament seven weeks earlier.
"It's fairly routine and a lot of judo players have this operation," he told BBC Radio Kent.
"With all the rehab, it'll put me in good stead post-op to crack on as soon as possible.
"My coach said this isn't about sport, a Paralympic medal or your career, this is about the rest of your life"
The operation is likely to keep him out of competition until the middle of next year.
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