Name Charles Ericksen Role Olympic athlete | Died February 23, 1916 | |
Olympic medals Wrestling at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle welterweight | ||
Karl Fredrik "Charles" Ericksen (1875 – February 23, 1916) was a Norwegian-American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics for the United States.
In 1904 he won a gold medal in the welterweight category.
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 gold registered as Norwegian, against Ericksen's wishes.
References
Charles Ericksen Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA