Ernest Cadine (12 July 1893 – 20 May 1978) was a French
weightlifter
Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...
who won a gold medal at the
1920 Summer Olympics in
Antwerp.
[Ernest Cadine]
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As a teenager Cadine trained in gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting and swimming. He finished third in the national middleweight weightlifting championships before
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
. During the war he served with an artillery regiment. In 1920 he won the light-heavyweight gold medals at the national championships and Olympic games and did not compete internationally afterwards. In 1920–1925 he set six world records: three in the
snatch and three in
clean and jerk, and later became a professional weightlifting showman. In 1978, he received the French
National Order of Merit.
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1893 births
1978 deaths
French male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters of France
Weightlifters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for France
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite
Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
People associated with physical culture
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