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Momčilo Tapavica

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Momčilo Tapavica, who was born on 14 October 1872 and died on 10 January 1949, was an all-around sportsperson and later a well-known architect. He competed in tennis, weightlifting and wrestling, which makes him one of the early multi-sport competitors of the modern Olympic era. His best result was the singles bronze medal in tennis at the 1896 Summer Olympics, which made him the first ethnic Serb, Slav and Hungarian citizen to win an Olympic medal. His name appears in Serbian Cyrillic, Hungarian and Serbian forms in sources. The English Wikipedia lead gives these facts only, so this entry records his sports, his 1896 medal and his later career as an architect, and leaves his individual weightlifting results to later sourced work.

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Birth Year
1872 1
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1 1
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Source Momčilo Tapavica (Wikipedia)

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Weightlifting, Sports
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first ethnic Serb, Slav and Hungarian citizen to win an Olympic medal
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1. Momčilo Tapavica (Wikipedia)
  • Lead, birth date
    14 October 1872
  • Lead, Olympic medal
    winning the singles bronze medal at the 1896 Summer Olympics
  • Lead, nationality
    first ethnic Serb, Slav and Hungarian citizen to win an Olympic medal
  • Plays: Weightlifting, Lead, sport
    He competed in tennis, weightlifting, wrestling
  • Competed In: 1896 Summer Olympics, Lead, 1896 Olympics
    winning the singles bronze medal at the 1896 Summer Olympics
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