Georgios Tsitas

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Men's Wrestling
Olympic medalist
Georgios Tsitas (right) with Carl Schuhmann
Medal record
Silver	1896 Athens	Greco-Roman

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' profile at Sports Reference.com

Persondata
Name	Tsitas, Georgios
Alternative names
Short description	Olympic wrestler
Date of birth	1872
Place of birth
Date of death
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