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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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Bulgarian resort of Kavarna prepares to host 20th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
September 25 - Kavarna, Bulgaria's historic Black Sea resort, is preparting to host the 20th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships on October 6 this year.Kavarna has a tiny population of 12,000 but as a host it already possesses major event experience with an annual marathon staged from 2009, which this year incorporated the Bulgarian championships, and on September 1 the First Balkan Half Marathon was held in the town as a test event for the IAAF race.
The men's and women's elite races will start and finish in the heart of the town, with the event being run on a compact course of three laps of 5 kilometres and one lap of 6.0975km, enabling spectators to closely follow the action.
The IAAF World Half Marathon Championships will be the second occasion that the Bulgarian Athletics Federation has staged an IAAF World Athletics Series event, as in 1990 the country's second largest city Plovdiv was the venue for the successful third edition of the IAAF World Junior Championships.
The coastal town and seaside resort in the Dobruja region of North-Eastern Bulgaria was first founded as a Greek settlement in the 5th century BC and is a rich archaeological treasure house that also has a modern infrastructure.
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Last month's Boston Marathon bombings showed just how vulnerable some events can be to terrorist attacks but Helmut Spahn, executive director of the International Centre for Sport Security, claims that sharing information and early planning can help reduce the risk of such incidents in the future
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