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Alberto Pigaiani

Posted on Monday, September 18th, 2017 by John Wood

Alberto Pigaiani was an Italian heavyweight weightlifter who competed in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne and 1960 Olympic games in Rome, finishing in third (452.5 kg total) and seventh place(450 kg total), respectively. Here he is on his way to a Bronze medal finish at the 1960 European Weightlifting Championships in Milan, Italy with a 374 lb. jerk .

Marian Zieliński

Posted on Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 by John Wood

Marian 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. Zieliński was also a three-time European champion and seven-time Polish Champion.