Frank Kugler

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Frank Kugler
medal table

Weightlifting , wrestling , tug of war

German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Olympic Summer Games
silver 1904 St. Louis Freestyle wrestling, heavyweight
bronze 1904 St. Louis Weightlifting, one-armed all-around
bronze 1904 St. Louis Weightlifting, two-armed all-around
bronze 1904 St. Louis Tug of war

Frank Xaver Kugler (or: Kungler ) (born March 29, 1879 - † July 7, 1952 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was a German athlete living in the USA who won a silver at the 1904 Summer Olympics in his adopted home town of St. Louis - and won three bronze medals. In 1913 he became a US citizen.

Career

Frank Kugler, who was born in the German Empire , was a member of the Southwest Gymnastics Club of St. Louis in St. Louis , an association to which primarily German-born Americans such as Max Braun , August Rodenberg and Oscar Friede (all three also medal winners at the 1904 Olympics) belonged . Kugler's disciplines included wrestling and weightlifting . At the 1904 Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in wrestling (freestyle, heavyweight), two bronze medals in weightlifting (in two-armed all-around and one-armed all-around) and a bronze medal in the tug of war with the second team of his club. With it he won Olympic medals in three different sports. Contrary to various statements, according to which Kugler was an American in 1904, he is officially listed as a German Olympian, and the bronze medal team in the tug of war is officially referred to as a mixed team (USA / Germany) due to his participation . According to this information, Kugler did not become a US citizen until 1913. Kugler's medals (three for Germany, one for mixed team ) are therefore wrongly assigned to the US Olympic team in most medal tables.

Others

An identity with the cameraman and co-founder of the Cinema Camera Club - a forerunner of the American Society of Cinematographers - Frank Kugler is not available.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Kugler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  2. ↑ Tug-Of-War: Athlete Medal Leaders - Pos. 102: Frank Kugler. on: Sports-Reference.com

Remarks

  1. ↑ is given in various publications as Frank Kungler , such as Annette R. Hofmann: Turnen and Sport - Transatlantic Transfers. Waxmann-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1381-8 . ( German & American studies in sport. Vol. 5)
  2. ↑ exact place of birth is unknown
  3. ↑ also referred to as St. Louis Southwest Gymnastics Club
  4. ↑ at the Olympic Games in 1904 club teams competed in the tug of war; the first team of the Southwest Gymnastics Club of St. Louis won the silver medal
  5. ↑ Mixed teams were not uncommon at the Olympic Games at that time; For example, the gold medal team in the 1900 tug of war was a mixed team (Sweden / Denmark)
  6. ↑ Frank Kugler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kugler, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kugler, Frank Xaver; Kungler, Frank; Kungler, Frank Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete, Olympic medalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1952
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri (USA)