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

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Rudolph Mang

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Joe Dube

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Ken Patera medaling in good company.

Four shots of Patera from Munich

Two shots of Gerd Bonk from Munich

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Introduction of the supers, Munich 72

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Khristo Plachkov scopes out the competition.

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Leonid Zhabotinski

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Zhabotinski helps Alexeyev button up.

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The original superheavy, Paul Anderson.
His debut in the USSR caused as big a stir
there as Alexeyev's did here.

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The inspirational American heavyweight
Norbert Schemansky who competed at
record setting levels into his forties.

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Schemansky with his best press of 415 lbs.

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Soviet heavyweight Yuri Vlasov

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American Bob Bednarski

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Ernie Pickett, Joe Dube and Bob Bednarski

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Finland's Jouko Leppa

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Janos Hanzlik

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Two pictures of Sultan Rakmanov, heir to Alexeyev's throne in the early eighties.

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Chalking up to tame the weighty steel.

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Yet another enormous and powerful Russian, reigning Olympic champion Andrei Chemerkin.

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