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Born November 24, 1939 (age 86) • Miyagi • Japan
Awards And Honors Olympic Games

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Miyake Yoshinobu celebrates with arms raised after winning the featherweight weightlifting competition at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, standing behind a loaded barbell.
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Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky, wearing a singlet, lifts a heavy barbell overhead on a platform during a weightlifting event, with a crowd watching in the background.
Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky
Soviet weightlifter
Irena Szewińska
Irena Szewińska
Polish athlete
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Al Oerter
American athlete
Wyomia Tyus anchoring the U.S. 4 × 100-metre relay team, which won the gold medal in world record time at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.
Wyomia Tyus
American athlete
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Halil Mutlu
Turkish weight lifter
Naim Suleymanoglu of Turkey, wearing a blue singlet, lifts a loaded barbell overhead during the 64 kg weightlifting event at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.
Naim Süleymanoğlu
Turkish athlete
Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games
Arkady Vorobyev
Soviet weightlifter
Charles Vinci
Charles Vinci
American weightlifter
Olympic gymnast Věra Čáslavská
Věra Čáslavská
Czech gymnast
American high jumper Dick Fosbury
Dick Fosbury
American athlete
Peter Snell
Peter Snell
New Zealand athlete
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Iolanda Balas
Romanian athlete
Marathon runner Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila
Ethiopian athlete
Olympic protests, 1968
Tommie Smith
American athlete
Olympic champion Tamara Press
Tamara Press
Soviet athlete
Irina Press
Irina Press
Soviet athlete
Lee Evans; Larry James
Lee Evans
American athlete
Kip Keino
Kip Keino
Kenyan distance runner
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Billy Mills
American athlete
Bob Hayes (left, foreground) winning the 100-metre dash at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo
Bob Hayes
American athlete

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