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1932 Olympics Leading Medal Winners

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right. Men No   Sport G-S-B 4 István Pelle, HUN Gymnastics 2-2-0 4 Giulio Gaudini,…

Brewer's: Abus

The river Humber. For by the river that whylome was hight The ancien Abus ... [was from] Their chieftain, Humber, named aright. And Drayton, in his Polyolbion, 28, says: For my princely…

Brewer's: Eleven Thousand Virgins

Ursula being asked in marriage by a pagan prince, fled towards Rome with her eleven thousand virgins. At Cologne they were all massacred by a party of Huns, and even to the present hour “…

1928 Men's Boxing Medalists

Class   Flyweight (-112 lb) Antal Kocsis, HUN   Armand Appel, FRA   Carlo Cavagnoli, ITA Batamweight (-118 lb) Vittorio Tamagnini, ITA   John Daley, USA   Harry…

1932 Men's Boxing Medalists

Class   Flyweight (-112 lb) István Enekes, HUN   Francisco Cabanas, MEX   Louis Salica, USA Batamweight (-118 lb) Horace Gwynne, CAN   Hans Ziglarski, GER   José…

1936 Men's Boxing Medalists

Class   Flyweight (-112 lb) Willy Kaiser, GER   Gavino Matta, ITA   Louis D. Laurie, USA Bantamweight (-118 lb) Ulderico Sergo, ITA   Jack Wilson, USA   Fidel Ortiz…

1936 Olympic Equestrian Medalists

Event   Score Three-Day Event Ludwig Stubbendorff, GER –37.70   Earl Thomson, USA –99.90   Hans Mathiesen-Lunding, DEN –102.20 Three-Day Event — Team Germany –…

1948 Olympic Freestyle Wrestling Winners

Class   Flyweight (-114 1/2 lb) Lennart Viitala, FIN   Halat Balamir, TUR   Thure Johansson, SWE Bantamweight (-125 3/4 lb) Nasuh Akar, TUR   Gerald Leeman, USA  …