Joe Puleo
Joe Puleo ( * 1941 ) is a former American professional weightlifter.
Career
Joe Puleo began as a teenager with the weight lifting. Already at the age of 19 he started for the first time at the U.S. Championships and set in 1962 with 155 kg a new junior world record in pushing the medium weight on. He was a member of the famous York Barbell Club. Although he won the Olympic excretion of American Weightlifting Association in 1964 in the middleweight and light heavyweight in 1968, he was not used at the Olympic Games. In 1968, he would certainly have had very good chances for a placement. That he at that time belonged to the international top class of Leichtschwergewichtler, he proved in the pre-Olympic Games 1967 in Mexico City, when he finished 2nd place behind Norbert Ozimek from Poland, but ahead of Hans Zdražila from Czechoslovakia. So his victories were his greatest successes in the Pan American Championships in 1963 in Sao Paulo and in 1967 in Winnipeg.
Joe Puleo studied at the University of Baltimore Marketing; He lives with his wife in Buckhead and has worked as a financial consultant for a company in Atlanta.
International success
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