Thursday, December 03, 2009
Marian ZielińskiMarian Zieliński, the Polish weightlifter who took part in four Olympic games, is shown here in mid-press. Zieliński was the first Polish athlete to win an Olympic weightlifting medal, when he took Bronze as a featherweight at the 1956 Games in Melbourne, Australia. At the 1960 Games in Rome he tried moving up to the lightweight class and finished fourth.
As a lightweight, he won two more Bronze medals, in Tokyo, 1964 and Mexico City, in 1968. He was also a three-time European champion and seven-time Polish Champion.
Labels: 1956 Olympics, 1960 Olympics, 1964 Olympics, 1968 Olympics, Bronze Medal, Marian Zieliński, Polish Weightlifter, Russian Olympic Set, Weightlifting Champion
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
1964 Tokyo Olympic StampHere's a stamp commemorating the weight lifting event at the 1964 Olympic Summer Games held in Tokyo, Japan.
Among the Medal winners featured on this site are Waldemar Baszanowski of Poland, who won Gold in the Lightweight Class, and Yoshinobu Miyake of Japan, who bested the field in the Featherweight division. Ike Berger took Silver behind Miyake, and Vlasov and Schemansky took Silver and Bronze behind the Russian Champion Zhabotinsky.
Labels: 1964 Olympics, Gold Medal, Ike Berger, Norb Schemansky, Olympics, Stamp, Tokyo, Waldemar Baszanowski, Yoshinobu Miyake, Yuri Vlasov
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Yoshinobu MiyakeThe great japanese lifter Yoshinobu Miyake is shown here at "the moment of truth" during the 1961 World championships where he won the Bronze Medal. It is not as evident in this picture but Miyake pioneered a unique technique known as "frog style" (or the Miyake pull), which involves a wide grip and where the legs are splayed to the side at the beginning of the lift.
His focus on this technique payed off as he took home Olympic Gold in the 1964 Tokyo Games and the 1968 Games in Mexico City, and set 29 World Records over the course of his career.
Labels: 1964 Olympics, 1968 Olympics, Gold Medal, Olympic Weightlifting, World Record, Yoshinobu Miyake
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Waldemar BaszanowskiWaldemar Baszanowski, the great Polish weightlifter, competed in four Olympic Games and took home Gold twice, at the 1964 Games in Tokyo, and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. He also won five Wold Championships: 1961, 1964, 1965, 1968, and 1969 and set twenty five World Records over the course of his career. Today, Baszanowski is the President of the European Weightlifting Federation.
Labels: 1964 Olympics, 1968 Olympics, Gold Medal, olympic weightlifter, Polish Weightlifter, Waldemar Baszanowski, World Record
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Valeriy BrumelYes, that is a man jump-kicking a regulation basketball hoop, a simply unbelieveable feat. In this case, that man is Valeriy Brumel, the great Soviet high jumper who is just doing a bit of showing off. Brumel won the Silver Medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics and took the Gold medal in Tokyo at the 1964 games.
Brumel broke the world record for high jump 6 times from 1961 to 1963. His personal best was 2.28 meters (about 7 feet 6 inches) In 1965 he was in a motorcycle accident which ruined his leg. After 29 operations he made a comeback in 1970 and was able to high jump 2.06 meters (about 6 feet 9 inches.) He was a true super human.
Labels: 1960 Olympics, 1964 Olympics, Gold Medal, High Jump, Olympic Athlete, Olympics
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Gary ClevelandGary Cleveland, 2-time Senior National Champion weightlifter, York Man, strength author an all-around nice guy does a few weighted dips to build his pressing strength. Gary placed 5th in the 82.5 kg class at the 1964 Olympic games held in Tokyo, Japan. Cleveland was a very good presser.
He went on to write a number of training articles for several different publications and also self-published a successful newsletter called the Avian Movement Advocate which was devoted to many different facets of strength training, philosophy and physical culture.
Labels: 1964 Olympics, Avian Movement Advocate, Dips, Gary Cleveland, olympic weightlifter, Strength Author, Weighted Dips, York Barbell Club t-shirt
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Schemansky Stalks the Bar...From the late 1940s to mid-1960s, Norb Schemansky was America's most successful Olympic Weightlifter and the first weightlifter to medal in four Olympic Games, (despite missing the 1956 games.)
Do you think he means business in the shot above?
Here's a look at Norb Schemansky's achievements over the course of his career:
And best career marks:Olympic Champion - 1952 Olympic Games, Helsinki Silver Medal - 1948 Olympic Games, London Bronze Medal - 1960, Rome, 1964, Tokyo World Champion (1951, 1953, and 1954) 1955 Pan American Games Heavyweight Champion Silver Medal - Senior World Championships (1947, 1962, 1963) Bronze Medal - Senior World Championships (1964)
Press - 415 lbs.
Snatch - 363 3/4 lbs.
Clean and Jerk - 445 lbs.
Total - 1200 lbs. (400-335-445)
In addition to his weightlifting exploits, he also famously cleaned, then thrice jerked the Apollon Wheels.
Labels: 1952 Olympics, 1960 Olympics, 1964 Olympics, Clean and Jerk, Gold Medal, Norb Schemansky, Olympic Weightlifting, Olympics, Press, Snatch, The 1947 U.S. World Weightlifting Team, weightlifting
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