Alexander Munro (born November 30, 1870 in Stornoway, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Scotland) did not participate in Wrestling at the 1924 and 1928 Games. He was a member of Great Britain's tug-of-war team at the 1908 Games in London, winning a bronze medal, and 1912 Games in Stockholm, winning a silver medal.
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Alexander Ovechkin played in 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
Alexander Ovechkin wears the number 8 because his mother, Tatyana Ovechkin, was number 8 on the Russain Olympic team where she won a gold medal.
Super heavyweight wrestler Bruce Baumgartner won four Olympic medals ... gold in 1984 and 1992, silver in 1988, and bronze in 1996.
Called the "greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time," Alexander Karelin (Александр Александрович Карелин), from Russia, won four Olympic Wrestling medals (3 gold, 1 silver). He had a thirteen-year winning streak (six years where he did not give up a single point). He completed in the heaviest weight class.
Not - Leonidas was a Spartan Greek, Alexander was a Macedonian. However Alexander's father Philip had faked up a Greek descent from Sparta so that he could enter a chariot in the Olympic Games (which was restricted to Greek citizens only).