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Title: Gary Gubner - RIP 05-25-24
Post by: funk51 on July 04, 2024, 01:31:17 PM

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Gubner   

American heavyweight weightlifter, shot putter and discus thrower. He had his best results in weightlifting, winning two world championship medals in 1962 and 1965 and placing fourth at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: IroNat on July 04, 2024, 01:34:15 PM

RIP

One freakishly strong athlete.

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: funk51 on July 04, 2024, 01:35:21 PM

   https://vault.si.com/vault/1962/07/09/the-boy-who-may-become-the-worlds-strongest-man   

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: funk51 on July 04, 2024, 01:39:30 PM

   https://web.archive.org/web/20200418085949/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/gary-gubner-1.html   

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: funk51 on July 04, 2024, 01:41:17 PM

GARY GUBNER
Sport: Track and Field
Inducted: 2001
Country: United States
Born: December 1, 1942 in New York, New York

Gary Gubner broke the World Indoor Shotput record on multiple occasions in 1962, eventually establishing the World indoor record of 64'113/4" (19.805 meters). He was ranked number one in the
World Indoors in 1962 and 1963. Outdoors, he was second in 1962 and fifth in 1963.

Injuries hampered Gubner’s expectations of making the U.S. team at the 1964 U.S. Olympic track and field trials, so he turned his attention to weightlifting and made the U.S. Olympic Weightlifting Team. He narrowly missed medaling, finishing fourth in the Heavyweight class at the 1964 Games.

Gubner went on to establish four Junior World lifting records in the Heavyweight class: 3871/2 pounds in the press; 324 pounds snatch; 4231/2 pounds clean and jerk; and a total pounds 1,135. In
1965, he set a U.S. press mark of 412 pounds en route to lifting 1,180 pounds.

In 1961, after touring Europe with the U.S. track and field team, which included a Shotput victory over the vaunted Soviet entry and a “statement” visit to Friday night services at a Moscow synagogue, Gubner competed in the Sixth Maccabiah Games in Israel, winning gold medals in Shotput, Discus, and Heavyweight Weightlifting.

 
© 1996- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: funk51 on July 04, 2024, 01:43:54 PM

   

   

   

   

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: wes on July 04, 2024, 02:43:49 PM

RIP

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: Taffin on July 04, 2024, 03:13:08 PM

PIP

(Put in Peace)

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: oldtimer1 on July 04, 2024, 05:41:05 PM

Great athlete!

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: Marvin Martian on July 04, 2024, 09:41:05 PM

That cat was truly a genetic elite!

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: falco on July 05, 2024, 01:53:46 AM

RIP.

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: Humble Narcissist on July 05, 2024, 01:59:12 AM

I was expecting a young'n. RIP

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: Rambone on July 05, 2024, 03:26:43 AM

Now that’s a haircut you could set your watch to

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: oldtimer1 on July 05, 2024, 09:26:59 AM

Quote from: Rambone on July 05, 2024, 03:26:43 AM

Now that’s a haircut you could set your watch to

Bet he got a fresh haircut every three weeks.

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: Chadwick The Beta on July 05, 2024, 09:52:48 AM

was he saved ?

Title: Re: gary gubner RIP
Post by: Humble Narcissist on July 06, 2024, 12:50:53 AM

Quote from: Chadwick The Beta on July 05, 2024, 09:52:48 AM

was he saved ?

All lifters are saved. God is a bodybuilder.