Norbert Schemansky
- Birth Date:
- 30.05.1924
- Death date:
- 07.09.2016
- Length of life:
- 92
- Days since birth:
- 36812
- Years since birth:
- 100
- Days since death:
- 3109
- Years since death:
- 8
- Extra names:
- Norbert Schemansky
- Categories:
- Olympic champion, Sportsman, WWII participant
- Nationality:
- american, pole
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Norbert "Norb" Schemansky (May 30, 1924 – September 7, 2016) was an American weightlifter. He was the first weightlifter to win four Olympic medals, despite missing the 1956 Summer Olympics due to back problems. He won a silver medal in the 1948 Summer Olympic Games, a gold in the 1952 Summer Olympics and bronzes in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.
Schemansky was a three-time world champion and a Pan American Games gold medalist. During his long weightlifting career (1947–1972) he set 13 official and 11 unofficial world records. In 1997 Schemansky was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of fame. He was born and raised in Detroit and since 1959 has lived in Dearborn, Michigan, where a city park was named for him. Prior to his years of Olympic weightlifting competition, Schemansky served in World War II with the 184th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion and fought at the Battle of the Bulge.
Source: wikipedia.org
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