Stanley Stanczyk

Anthony Stanley "Stan" Stanczyk ( born May 10, 1925 in Armstrong, Wisconsin; † 3 July 1997 in Miami) was an American weightlifter and Olympic champion in the light heavyweight division in 1948.

Career

Stanczyk grew up in Detroit. At age nine, he attended a sports club, where he boxed, wrestled, swam and even practiced with light weights. In 1941 he started at the coach Johnny krill serious about weight lifting. At the age of 17, he had reached the national top when he finished third in the middleweight division with 347.5 kg at the U.S. Championships in 1942. In 1943 he volunteered for the U.S. Army and spent most of the war in the Pacific theater. In 1945 he was discharged from the army. He immediately began training again.

1946 he was the mentor of the American weightlifting, Bob Hoffmann, noticed that overtook him in the same year to the York Barbell Club in New York by his good performances in some competitions. In 1946 he started for the first time at an international championship. For tactical reasons, he had 8 kg of his body weight abtrainiert to start at lightweight can. Despite this drastic treatment he became world champion. In 1947 he was first American middleweight champion when he beat Frank Spellman and John Terpak. From now on he belonged until his resignation in 1955 to the world's elite in his weight class.

Stan Stanczyk was also an excellent bodybuilder who has won many prizes in national competitions.

In 1949 he moved from New York in the warmer Miami. In 1951 he opened there with a partner, a sports school with a focus on weight lifting, which he gave up in 1955 and a bowling center opened, which he operated for 27 years. In 1953 he married and had two sons with his wife and two daughters. In addition to his professional duties, he also coached for 20 years some weightlifting, led by the world champion in the lightweight 1951 Joe Pitman.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Le = Lightweight, Mi = middleweight, Ls = Lightweight (semi) heavy weight )

U.S. Championships

Stan Stanczyk 1947 in the middleweight and 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1953 U.S. champion in the light heavyweight division.

World Records

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