In the 1900 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France, where he won the silver medal in the discus throw.

He - and the Hungarian Rudolf Bauer - was the first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body.

He invented this technique when studying the position of the famous statue of Discobolus.

At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden he was 15th in shot put and 17th in discus throw .

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