Charles Ackerly

Born

January 3, 1898
Cuba, New York, U.S.

Died

August 16, 1982 (aged 84)
Clearwater, Florida, U.S.

Medal record

Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
	1920 Antwerp	Freestyle featherweight

Charles Edwin "Charley" Ackerly (January 3, 1898 – August 16, 1982) was an American wrestler who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. 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 category, winning the gold medal.^[1]

References

↑ "Charles Ackerly". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2013-09-07.

Olympic Champions in freestyle featherweight

1904 Benjamin Bradshaw (USA) 1908 George Dole (USA) 1920 Charles Ackerly (USA) 1924 Robin Reed (USA) 1928 Allie Morrison (USA) 1932 Hermanni Pihlajamäki (FIN) 1936 Kustaa Pihlajamäki (FIN) 1948 Gazanfer Bilge (TUR) 1952 Bayram Şit (TUR) 1956 Shozo Sasahara (JPN) 1960 Mustafa Dağıstanlı (TUR) 1964 Osamu Watanabe (JPN) 1968 Masaaki Kaneko (JPN) 1972 Zagalav Abdulbekov (URS) 1976 Yang Jung-mo (KOR) 1980 Magomedgasan Abushev (URS) 1984 Randall Lewis (USA) 1988 John Smith (USA) 1992 John Smith (USA) 1996 Tom Brands (USA) 2000 Murad Umakhanov (RUS) 2004 Yandro Quintana (CUB) 2008 Mavlet Batirov (RUS) 2012 Toghrul Asgarov (AZE)

−61.33 kg (1904) −60.3 kg (1908) −61 kg (1920–1936) −63 kg (1948–1968) −62 kg (1972–1996) −63 kg (2000) −60 kg (2004–2012)

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