Carl Schuhmann

Carl August Berthold Schuhmann was a German athlete, born on 12 May 1869 and died on 24 March 1946, who won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, making him the most successful athlete at the first Games of the modern era. A member of the Berliner Turnerschaft, he won the team events on the horizontal bar and parallel bars with the German gymnasts and the individual horse vault. He then entered the wrestling competition and, although much lighter and smaller than most of his rivals, won the final against Georgios Tsitas of Greece after a bout of 40 minutes was stopped by darkness and finished the next morning. He also competed in weightlifting, where he finished fourth, and in the long jump, triple jump and shot put. In 1936 he took part in a gymnastics exhibition at the Olympic Stadium.