Norbert Schemansky

Norbert Schemansky (* May 30, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan ) is a former American professional weightlifter.

Career

Norbert Schemansky is the son of a large family of Polish immigrants to the United States. He began to play sports at the North -Eastern High School in Detroit. Initially he operated the usual at this school athletics and American football, he came at age 16 by his brother Dennis with weight lifting in touch as he was taken from there to workout in the Detroit Barbell Club. Soon, his extraordinary talent for weightlifting showed. Prior to his enlistment in the U.S. Army in the summer of 1943, he had increased his best performance in the Olympic triathlon to 365 kg with a body weight of about 88 kg. During his military service, which lasted until 1946, he had no opportunity for training.

Already after a short training, he already achieved in 1946 so good performances that he each second at the U.S. Championships in the heavyweight division, one behind John Davis in 1946 and 1947. He took a second place then at the World Championships in 1947 in Philadelphia. Since then, he belonged to the best in the world, won an Olympic victory and three more Olympic medals. Norbert Schemansky, which, the American "way of life " according to, like malnourished from " Hamburgers " and pizzas and happy once drank a beer, had to make towards the end of his career due to injury often prolonged training and competition breaks, but recovered again and delivered the more than ten years younger Russians Yuri Vlasov at the World Championships and Olympic Games at the beginning of the 1960s fantastic fights. He lives in Dearborn / USA.

International career

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Ms = Medium weight up to 90 kg body weight, S = Heavy weight)

USA Championships

World Records

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In Olympic triathlon:

  • 415 kg, 1951 in Los Angeles, Ms,
  • 427.5 kg, 1951 in Milan, Ms,
  • 445 kg, 1952 in Helsinki, Ms,
  • 487.5 kg, 1954 in Vienna, S.
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