Hackenschmidt, George

Hackenschmidt, George

▪ Russian-British athlete

born 1877, Tartu, Estonia, Russia
died Feb. 19, 1968, London
 professional wrestler who ranked with Tom Jenkins and Frank Gotch among the greatest in the history of freestyle, or catch-as-catch-can, wrestling. He also held several weight-lifting records.

      In Vienna in 1898 Hackenschmidt won the world amateur championship in Greco-Roman wrestling. Turning to professional freestyle wrestling in 1900, he was undefeated until April 1908, when he lost to Gotch in Chicago. In 1911, again in Chicago, he was once more defeated by Gotch. Gentle outside the ring, he relied on the scientific use of his strength and disliked the brutal tactics employed by many wrestlers.

      After his retirement Hackenschmidt became a mystical philosopher, writing Man and Cosmic Antagonism to Mind and Spirit (1936) and other books. He was naturalized as a French citizen after World War I and as a British subject in 1950.

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