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Charles Edwin "Charley" Ackerly 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.
Charles Collignon was a French fencer and Olympic champion in épée competition.
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Charles Mellor was an American long-distance runner. He competed at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1925 he won the Boston Marathon.
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- ↑ "Charles Backsman Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
