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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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Silver for Britain's French behind Kovacs at modern pentathlon Euro Junior Championships
Monday, 11 June 2012
June 11 - Britain's Kate French took silver at the Modern Pentathlon European Junior Championships in Hungary when she finished 25 seconds behind the host nation's Sarolta Kovacs, the reigning world junior champion.French (pictured top) also joined forces with Kerry Prise and Rebecca Wain to collect bronze in the team event at the competition in Székesfehérvár.
Russia won the team competition, with Italy second.
The 21-year-old French, who trains at the Pentathlon GB High Performance Centre at the University of Bath, finished 10th in the individual competition at last year's European Junior Championships.
The latest British successes came just over 24 hours after the British modern pentathlon team for the London 2012 Olympic Games was named.
Kovacs, an athlete who has achieved the London 2012 Olympic qualifying standard, successfully defended her junior European crown to land a record fourth title.
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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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