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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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Muirhead claims record fourth world title
Sunday, 13 March 2011
March 13 - Scotland's women won the World Junior Curling Championships in Perth with skip Eve Muirhead claiming her fourth title.
Muirhead and her team of Anna Sloan, Vicky Adams and Rhiann Macleod cruised to a 10-3 victory over Canada in the final.
Muirhead said: "We gave them nothing and that's the way we wanted to play. We didn't miss anything, we placed the stones exactly where we wanted them."
"To win it four times feels pretty good, each time feels just as good as every other time, but this is special."
Oskar Eriksson and his Swedish team of twin brothers Alexander and Kristian Lindström and Christoffer Sundgren, won the men's title 6-5 in a tight final against defending champions Switzerland.
Eriksson said: "It feels awesome, I am so relieved now to have the gold medal, finally".
"We didn't play so good at the start.
"Me and Kristian missed a couple of shots, we had some pressure on us."
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