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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first ethnic Serb, Slav and Hungarian citizen to win an Olympic medal
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14 October 1872
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winning the singles bronze medal at the 1896 Summer Olympics
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first ethnic Serb, Slav and Hungarian citizen to win an Olympic medal
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He competed in tennis, weightlifting, wrestling
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winning the singles bronze medal at the 1896 Summer Olympics
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