Ernest Cadine (12 July 1893 – 20 May 1978) was a French

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who won a gold medal at the

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.Ernest Cadine
Sports Reference.com As a teenager Cadine trained in gymnastics, wrestling, weightlifting and swimming. He finished third in the national middleweight weightlifting championships before

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. 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

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, 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 for 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 20th-century French sportsmen {{France-Olympic-medalist-stub