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The First Olympians 5/7: Too Small to Wrestle? He Won the 1896 Olympics (The True Story of Carl Schuhmann)
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The First Olympians, Episode 5 of 7. The true story of Carl Schuhmann, a gymnast from Berlin who won four titles at the 1896 Athens Olympics in two different sports. He won the vault and two team gymnastics events, and then entered the wrestling, where there were no weight classes. Much smaller and lighter than most of his opponents, he beat the weightlifting champion Launceston Elliot, and in the final wrestled the Greek Georgios Tsitas for 40 minutes until it grew too dark to continue. The next morning he won. He also lifted weights and jumped in the athletics events. Today his…
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