Charles Ericksen
Norwegian-American wrestler
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Full name | Karl Fredrik Eriksen | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1875-06-20)June 20, 1875 Tønsberg, Norway | ||||||||||||||
Died | February 24, 1916(1916-02-24) (aged 40) New York, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Karl Fredrik "Charles" Ericksen (June 20, 1875 – February 24, 1916) was a Norwegian-American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics for the United States.
At the 1904 Olympics, he won a gold medal in the freestyle welterweight category, wrestling on the United States team.[1] In 2012, Norwegian historians found documentation showing that Ericksen did not receive American citizenship until 22 March 1905. The historians thus petitioned to have Ericksen's Olympic gold registered as Norwegian.[2]
References
External links
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Charles Ericksen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
- Proof of Norwegian citizenship at the time of the games (in Norwegian)
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- 1904 Charles Ericksen (NOR)
- 1924 Hermann Gehri (SUI)
- 1928 Arvo Haavisto (FIN)
- 1932 Jack van Bebber (USA)
- 1936 Frank Lewis (USA)
- 1948 Yaşar Doğu (TUR)
- 1952 William Smith (USA)
- 1956 Mitsuo Ikeda (JPN)
- 1960 Douglas Blubaugh (USA)
- 1964 İsmail Ogan (TUR)
- 1968 Mahmut Atalay (TUR)
- 1972 Wayne Wells (USA)
- 1976 Jiichiro Date (JPN)
- 1980 Valentin Raychev (BUL)
- 1984 David Schultz (USA)
- 1988 Kenny Monday (USA)
- 1992 Park Jang-soon (KOR)
- 1996 Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2000 Brandon Slay (USA)
- 2004 Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2008 Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)
- 2012 Jordan Burroughs (USA)
- 2016 Hassan Yazdani (IRI)
- 2020 Zaurbek Sidakov (ROC)
- 1904: 71.67 kg
- 1924–1936: 72 kg
- 1948–1960: 73 kg
- 1964–1968: 78 kg
- 1972–1996: 74 kg
- 2000: 76 kg
- 2004–present: 74 kg
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