The Gallery of

VARIOUS WEIGHTLIFTERS

These are pictures of other notables of weightlifting. Although some of the men featured here actually competed as heavyweights, it was only because their careers predated the creation of the superheavyweight class.

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Stanislav Batischev	Rudolph Mang
Joe Dube	Ken Patera medaling in good company.
Four shots of Patera from Munich

Two shots of Gerd Bonk from Munich
Introduction of the supers, Munich 72	Khristo Plachkov scopes out the competition.
Leonid Zhabotinski	Zhabotinski helps Alexeyev button up.
The original superheavy, Paul Anderson. His debut in the USSR caused as big a stir there as Alexeyev's did here.	The inspirational American heavyweight Norbert Schemansky who competed at record setting levels into his forties.
Schemansky with his best press of 415 lbs.	Soviet heavyweight Yuri Vlasov
American Bob Bednarski	Ernie Pickett, Joe Dube and Bob Bednarski
Finland's Jouko Leppa	Janos Hanzlik
Two pictures of Sultan Rakmanov, heir to Alexeyev's throne in the early eighties.	Chalking up to tame the weighty steel.
Yet another enormous and powerful Russian, reigning Olympic champion Andrei Chemerkin.