Charles Ericksen
Norwegian-American wrestler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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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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]