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Ackerly pictured far left
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| Born | (1898-01-03)January 3, 1898 Cuba, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | August 16, 1982(1982-08-16) (aged 84) Clearwater, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Charles Edwin "Charley" Ackerly (January 3, 1898 – August 16, 1982) was an American wrestler who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.[1] He was a 1920 graduate of Cornell University where he competed for the Cornell Big Red wrestling team under Coach Walter O'Connell. Ackerly was also a member of the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity and Sphinx Head Society.
He competed for the United States in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the freestyle featherweight division, winning the gold medal.[2] He was the only American wrestler to win gold during the 1920 Olympics, and was given a hero's welcome in his hometown of Cuba, New York following his return from Antwerp.[3]
Ackerly was inducted into the Helms Foundation National Amateur Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1960 and Cornell's Hall of Fame in 1981.[4]
After his wrestling career, he worked as a lawyer in Detroit, Michigan before retiring to Clearwater, Florida.[5]
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 Charles Ackerly (USA) Robin Reed (USA) Allie Morrison (USA) Hermanni Pihlajamäki (FIN) Kustaa Pihlajamäki (FIN) Gazanfer Bilge (TUR) Bayram Şit (TUR) Shozo Sasahara (JPN) Mustafa Dağıstanlı (TUR) Osamu Watanabe (JPN) Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) Zagalav Abdulbekov (URS) Yang Jung-mo (KOR) Magomedgasan Abushev (URS) Randall Lewis (USA) John Smith (USA) John Smith (USA) Tom Brands (USA) Murad Umakhanov (RUS) Yandro Quintana (CUB) Mavlet Batirov (RUS) Toghrul Asgarov (AZE) | |
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