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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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British judoka warm-up for Europeans at Dusseldorf Grand Prix meeting
Friday, 17 February 2012
February 17 - Britain's leading judoka will prepare for the forthcoming European Championships by competing in Dusseldorf this weekend. British Judo has selected the same seven-strong team that competed at the Paris Grand Slam.
Sophie Cox (pictured top left), the reigning European bronze medallist, will compete in the -52kg category while fellow British Closed Championships winner Sarah Clark (pictured below in white) takes to the tatami at -57kg in the International Judo Federation's Dusseldorf Grand Prix – the highest-profile competition before the European Championships get underway in Russia from April 27-29.
Karina Bryant and Sarah Adlington, who both took fifth place at the Paris Grand Slam, will again compete in the +78kg category.
Ashley McKenzie battles at -60kg while Colin Oates, who also took fifth-place in Paris with a record of three wins and one defeat, competes at -66kg.
Masters bronze medallist and British Closed Champion Euan Burton sees action in the -81kg category.
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