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Also Known As weight lifting

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Olympic weightlifting
Strong men
Tommy Kono
Lifting techniques
Tommy Kono on his way to winning the silver medal in the middleweight weightlifting competition at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
Tommy Kono
Miyake Yoshinobu celebrates with arms raised after winning the featherweight weightlifting competition at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, standing behind a loaded barbell.
Tommy Kono at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games
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Halil Mutlu
Turkish weight lifter
Vasily Alexeyev of the Soviet Union lifts a loaded barbell overhead during the super heavyweight weightlifting competition at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev
Soviet weightlifter
Tommy Kono on his way to winning the silver medal in the middleweight weightlifting competition at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.
Tommy Kono
American weightlifter
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
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
Miyake Yoshinobu at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games
Miyake Yoshinobu
Japanese athlete
Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games
Arkady Vorobyev
Soviet weightlifter
Charles Vinci
Charles Vinci
American weightlifter

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