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Name
  
Georgios Tsitas


Role
  
Olympic athlete

Georgios Tsitas

Olympic medals
  
Wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman Open

Georgios Tsitas (1872 – 1940s) was a Greek wrestler. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens.

In the first round of the wrestling competition, held in a roughly Greco-Roman format, Tsitas had a bye to guarantee a top three finish before he even had a match. The semifinal pitted Tsitas against fellow Greek Stephanos Christopoulos. Tsitas won the match by throwing Christopoulos. In the final, Tsitas wrestled with Carl Schuhmann of Germany, an exceptional gymnast, for 40 minutes before the match was postponed due to darkness. Tsitas did not last long the following day, being defeated to finish in second place.

References

Georgios Tsitas Wikipedia