Mehnert, George N.
Boxing, Wrestling
b. Nov. 3, 1881, Newark, NJ
d. July 8, 1948
During his eight years as a top amateur wrestler, Mehnert lost only two matches, one of them to George Dole in the finals of the 1907 AAU national bantamweight championship. Mehnert was national flyweight champion from 1902 through 1904 and in 1908, and he won the bantamweight title in 1905 and 1906.
Mehnert won an Olympic gold medal as a flyweight in 1904 and was the Olympic bantamweight champion in 1908, when a London sportswriter reported that he "undoubtedly was the most scientific, both in attack and defense, of any wrestler taking part in the Games."
After wrestling professionally in 1909 and 1910, Mehnert served as president of the Newark, NJ, National Turnverein Club and as chief clerk of the AAU's national wrestling committee.