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2. Paul Anderson (weightlifter) - Wikipedia

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   He was an Olympic gold medalist, a world champion, and a two-time national champion in Olympic weightlifting. [3] Anderson contributed significantly to the development of competitive powerlifting; due to his many world records and outstanding feats of strength, he has often been called "the strongest man who ever lived." [4]

3. Lasha Talakhadze - Wikipedia

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   Lasha Talakhadze (Georgian: ლაშა ტალახაძე; Georgian pronunciation: [laʃa tʼalaχadze]; born 2 October 1993) is a Georgian weightlifter, holding the all-time world records regardless of weight category in the snatch (225 kg, 496 lb), the clean and jerk (267 kg, 589 lb), and the total (492 kg, 1,085 lb) since 2021.

4. Naim Süleymanoğlu - Wikipedia

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   Naim Süleymanoğlu (Bulgarian: Наим Сюлейманоглу; 23 January 1967 – 18 November 2017) [1] [2] was a Turkish Olympic weightlifter. He was a seven-time World Weightlifting champion and a three-time Olympic gold medalist who set 46 world records. At 147 cm in height, Süleymanoğlu's short stature and great strength led to him ...

5. Mikhail Koklyaev - Wikipedia

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   Koklyaev qualified for the 2013 World's Strongest Man finals, but had to withdraw due to an earlier injury after the first event. He is a 7-time Strongman Champions League grand prix winner, and finished third overall for both the 2010 and 2012 SCL seasons.

6. Vasily Alekseyev - Wikipedia

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   In January 1970, Alekseyev set his first world record, and during the 1970 World Weightlifting Championship in Columbus, he was the first man to clean and jerk 500 pounds (227 kg) in competition. During one of his early world records, Oscar State OBE remarked that the weight of over 460 pounds (209 kg) in the Olympic press looked so easy it ...

7. Doug Hepburn - Wikipedia

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   Hepburn entered competition in 1948, and set an unofficial Canadian record (300 lbs. clean & press) at his first competition. He took the U.S. Open title in 1947, by pressing 345 lbs. Hepburn set another Canadian weightlifting record in 1950 and went on to win a gold medal at the 1953 World Weightlifting Championships in Stockholm with a 1030 lbs Olympic 3-lift-total. [3]

8. List of World Championships medalists in weightlifting (men ...

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   This is a List of World Championships medalists in men's weightlifting. Flyweight. 52 kg: 1969–1991; 54 kg: 1993–1997;

9. Jon Cole (weightlifter) - Wikipedia

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   Jon Frederic Cole (April 1, 1943 – January 10, 2013) was a discus thrower,powerlifter, Olympic weightlifter and strongman from the United States.He competed in powerlifting just prior to the formation of the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF). [4]