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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Gym-Rat on June 30, 2022, 02:42:17 AM
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Ernie Pickett of the late 60s was a good all round Olympic and power lifter. He was listed in various publications of being between 6' 5" and 6' 7". Many put him at a fraction under 6' 6".
His best Olympic lifts were done at the 1968 OL trials where he pressed 457 (world record), snatch 345 (done earlier in 1968 in Chicago), C&J 462 (at trials).
In the 1968 Senior National Power lifting he did a 450 bench, 600 squat (took only 2 attempts and went really deep), and a 750 dead lift (only 2 attempts taken here also).
Bill Starr considered that Pickett's 750lb deadlift at the 1968 Powerlifting Senior Nationals was so easy, that if he hadn't been in the midst of preparing for his participation at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics then Ernie could well have become the first man in history that day to deadlift 800lbs in official competition."
Ernie Pickett competed as a heavyweight weightlifter at the 1968 Olympics. He was first at the US YMCA Championships in 1968 and placed second at the US Olympic Trials. In February 1968 Pickett set a world record for the press with 202.0 kg, and later in the year hoisted 207.5 kg which bettered the world record but was not ratified. Pickett was also quite good at power lifting, winning multiple titles in that version of weightlifting. Pickett worked as a machinist.
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Who beat Picket out at the Olympic Trials in 1968?
Dube?
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Middle heavyweight
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Bantamweight
(56 kg)
details Mohammad Nassiri
Iran 367.5 kg Imre Földi
Hungary 367.5 kg Henryk Trębicki
Poland 357.5 kg
Featherweight
(60 kg)
details Yoshinobu Miyake
Japan 392.5 kg Dito Shanidze
Soviet Union 387.5 kg Yoshiyuki Miyake
Japan 385.0 kg
Lightweight
(67.5 kg)
details Waldemar Baszanowski
Poland 437.5 kg Parviz Jalayer
Iran 422.5 kg Marian Zieliński
Poland 420.0 kg
Middleweight
(75 kg)
details Viktor Kurentsov
Soviet Union 475.0 kg Masushi Ouchi
Japan 455.0 kg Károly Bakos
Hungary 440.0 kg
Light heavyweight
(82.5 kg)
details Boris Selitsky
Soviet Union 485.0 kg Vladimir Belyaev
Soviet Union 485.0 kg Norbert Ozimek
Poland 472.5 kg
Middle heavyweight
(90 kg)
details Kaarlo Kangasniemi
Finland 517.5 kg Jaan Talts
Soviet Union 507.5 kg Marek Gołąb
Poland 495.0 kg
Heavyweight
(+90 kg)
details Leonid Zhabotinsky
Soviet Union 572.5 kg Serge Reding
Belgium 555.0 kg Joseph Dube
United States 555.0 kg
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Joe Dube showed up at an event I was at some years back.
Very large, old and couldnt move too well. He drove himself to the event from FLA to NJ.
Nice gent though, for sure...
A beast back in his day...
(https://66.media.tumblr.com/e1f711b32666cf11a789c5030a8bae18/edb4b4c1ce133603-9b/s500x750/e911bcb744c2514aab1b4afcf7bc78c359eb6929.jpg)
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there was a story years ago , when hoffman was trying to get joe weider in trouble by saying his [weider's] magazines were pornagraphic. weider came back at him by saying that hoffman would use pics like his in MD and SH but the girls they had in york were so ugly that only joe dube would pose with them..