Friday, November 09, 2007

  • Weightlifting Champion John Davis

    • Weightlifting Champion
    John Davis    		John Davis was one of America's greatest Olympic weightlifting champions.

    Throughout his career he won two gold medals: 1948(London) and 1952(Helsinki)

    He was also a Senior World Champion in 1938, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, and 1951.

    His best Olympic lifts were:

  • Press - 342 Pounds
  • Snatch - 330-1/2 Pounds
  • Clean & Jerk - 402 Pounds
    • He also excelled in a number of other lifts, deadlifting 705 pounds, squatting 525 pounds eight times in succession, curling 215 pounds, chin himself with either arm multiple times, a right-hand lift of 8 pounds on a Weaver Stick in the Forward Lift style and one of the few men in history to Clean and Jerk the Apollon Wheels

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    Posted by John Wood @ Friday, November 09, 2007

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