Otto Roehm
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Full name | Otto Frederick Roehm | ||||||||||||||
Born | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | August 2, 1882||||||||||||||
Died | April 29, 1958 Cheektowaga, New York, U.S. | (aged 75)||||||||||||||
Home town | Buffalo, New York, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Otto Frederick Roehm (August 2, 1882 – April 29, 1958)[2] was an American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. Roehm became a U.S. citizen in 1888. At the 1904 Olympic Games, Roehm won a gold medal in lightweight category and also wrestled in the welterweight category, losing to William Beckmann in the semifinals.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Otto Roehm - Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. buffalosportshalloffame.com. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
- ^ "Obituary" (PDF). Fulton History. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
- ^ "Otto Roehm". Olympedia. Retrieved February 25, 2021.
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Categories:
- 1882 births
- 1958 deaths
- Wrestlers at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- American male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in wrestling
- Canadian male sport wrestlers
- Canadian emigrants to the United States
- Medalists at the 1904 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American sport wrestler stubs