Pete George
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| Full name | Peter T. George | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 29, 1929 (age 95) Akron, Ohio, U.S. |
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Peter T. "Pete" George[1] (born June 29, 1929) is an American weightlifter and Olympic and World champion of Macedonian descent.[2] He won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.[3] He also won 5 World championships outside of the Olympics in 1947, 1951, 1953, 1954, and 1955. He placed second at the World Championships in 1949, and 1950, making a total of 10 medals in World and Olympic competition. He also set 4 world records, 3 in the clean and jerk, and 1 in the total.
Born in Akron, Ohio,[1] he received silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London,[4] and at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[5]
He was the first 15-year-old to clean and jerk 300 lbs[6] and was the youngest senior state champion of Ohio at 14 and 1/2.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Ohio History Central
- ↑ "1952 Summer Olympics - Helsinki, Finland - Weightlifting" - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 22, 2008).
- ↑ "1948 Summer Olympics - London, United Kingdom- Weightlifting" - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 22, 2008).
- ↑ "1956 Summer Olympics - Melbourne, Australia - Weightlifting" - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 22, 2008).
- ↑ Honolulu Star-Bulletin
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