Sport Weightlifting Weight 82 kg Role Olympic athlete | Name Louis Hostin Club OSC Saint-Etienne | |
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Born 21 April 1908 Saint-Etienne, France Olympic medals Weightlifting at the 1928 Summer Olympics - Men's Light Heavyweight 75-82.5 kg People also search for Ibrahim Wasif, Henry Duey, Svend Olsen, El Sayed Nosseir, Jan Verheijen, Eugen Deutsch | ||
Louis Hostin (21 April 1908 – 29 June 1998) was a French weightlifter. He competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics and won two gold and one silver medals. Hostin also won two European titles, in 1930 and 1935, and two medals at world championships in 1937–1938. Between 1927 and 1939 he won 13 national titles and set 10 official world records: 7 in the snatch and 3 in the clean and jerk.
In 1994 he was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame. He worked as a croupier.
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