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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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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Friday, August 22, 2008
Russ Knipp from Pittsburgh, Pensylvania pressing 355 at the 1969 Sr. Nationals ( An American & National meet record.)
Knipp never did medal at the Olympics but he did compete at two Games (Mexico City - 1968. Munich - 1972), won seventeen medals in international competition, was a three-time U.S. National Champion and set nine worlds records. |  Russ Knipp |
Labels: 1968 Olympics, 1972 Olympics, Olympics, Overhead Press, Russ Knip, Senior Nationals, weightlifting
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
Fred LoweMichigan native and MSU grad Fred Lowe is one of America's greatest Olympic Weightlifters who won the first of his 8 National Championships in 1969.
He went on to compete in the Olypics Games three times(1968 - Mexico City, Mexico, 1972 Munich, Germany (pictured above), 1976 - Montreal, Canada)
At a bodyweight of 165 pounds, Fred Lowe is the lightest lifter to ever Clean & Jerk over 400 -- a record that still stands over 20 years after it was set.
Labels: 1968 Olympics, 1972 Olympics, 1976 Olympics, Clean and Jerk, Clean and Jerk Record, Fred Lowe, Michigan State, Munich Germany, Olympic Weightlifting
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