Nickname(s) Norb Turned pro 1947 Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Retired 1972 | Role Olympic athlete Nationality American Name Norbert Schemansky | |
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Event(s) Clean and pressSnatchClean and jerk Olympic medals Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Men's Heavyweight +82.5 kg Similar People Yury Vlasov, Leonid Zhabotinsky, James Bradford, Grigory Novak | ||
Atomic athletic norbert schemansky introduction
Norbert "Norb" Schemansky (May 30, 1924 – September 7, 2016) was an American weightlifter. He was the first weightlifter to win four Olympic medals, despite missing the 1956 Summer Olympics due to back problems. He won a silver medal in the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, a gold in the 1952 Summer Olympics and bronzes in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
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- Atomic athletic norbert schemansky introduction
- Norbert schemansky continental clean jerk 200kg 441lbs
- Biography
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Norbert schemansky continental clean jerk 200kg 441lbs
Biography
Schemansky was a three-time world champion and a Pan American and Olympic games gold medalist. During his long weightlifting career (1947–1972) he set 13 official and 11 unofficial world records. On April 28, 1962, at the age of 37 years and 333 days, Schemansky became the oldest man in the history of weightlifting to set an official world record, when he snatched 164 kg. In 1997 Schemansky was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of fame. He was born and raised in Detroit and from 1959 until his death in 2016 lived in Dearborn, Michigan, where a city park was named for him. Prior to his years of Olympic weightlifting competition, Schemansky served in World War II with the 184th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion and fought at the Battle of the Bulge. Schemansky died in Dearborn, Michigan on September 7, 2016 at the age of 92, while in hospice care.
