Weightlifters at the 1968 Summer Olympics - Precious McKenzie, Serge Reding, Joseph Dube, Mohammad Nassiri, Jaan Talts, Leonid Zhabotinsky (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Precious Mckenzie, Serge Reding, Joseph Dube, Mohammad Nassiri, Jaan Talts, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Yoshinobu Miyake, Waldemar Baszanowski, Don Oliver, Marian Zieli ski, Viktor Kurentsov, John Bolton, Mieczys aw Nowak, Imre Foldi, Russell Knipp, Boris Selitsky, Dito Shanidze, Pierre St.-Jean, Henryk Tr bicki, Kaarlo Kangasniemi, Phil Grippaldi, Fred Lowe. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Precious McKenzie MBE (1936 - ) was a South African-born weightlifter who won Commonwealth titles representing both England and New Zealand and has won several World powerlifting and Masters World powerlfting titles. His diminutive stature 1.45m (4' 9") made him a distinctive figure at any competition. Born in Durban, South Africa, he suffered from ill-health during his childhood. An ambition to be a circus performer ended because of South Africa's race laws and this led him to weight training and weightlifting. Although he was ranked the best weightlifter in his weight category in South Africa, he was barred in 1958 from representing his country at the Empire and Commonwealth Games that year. Because he was classified as coloured under the apartheid regime he was also excluded from the South African team for the 1960 Rome Olympiad. In 1963, he was told he could be included in the South African team for the 1964 Olympics, provided he was segregated from the white members of the team. He refused and left South Africa for Britain in 1964 with his wife and young family. British minister for sport, Denis Howell, fast-tracked his citizenship application to allow him to compete for England in the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Jamaica where he won gold. Initially working as a "clicker" in a shoe factory in Northampton, he moved to Bristol where he completed a Physical Education...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=87265