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Mourning Paul Anderson - Humberto Selvetti in the 1956 Olympics

I take the recent article by Bob Hoffman, where a brief description of the situation or context in which strength sports were developed to relate an event as Argentine me proud.



Melbourne 1956, Australia, like every event of world significance, the Olympics would be the framework for what would be a kind of transfer of war cold (U.S. - USSR) brought to the field of sports performance and logically to the superiority between athletes from both countries as representing a much more profound superiority and dangerous.
Weightlifting, more heavy, yet it competed in weightlifting in 3 movements and the medal was awarded for the total (Ie the sum of the Snatch, Clean and Jerk and Power). On the one hand, Paul Anderson, American, with a record of 519.5 in the sum, was undoubtedly the favorite. Anderson was an athlete of impressive features, and U.S. representative in relation to the feats of strength sports. So much so that in 1955, travels to the Soviet Union to challenge his athletes where they make a press with an impressive 402.5 pounds (approximately 182 kilos) surpassing any show of force prior knowledge. On the other hand, who faced Paul Anderson, in an "equal footing" in an intense competition than was Humberto Selvetti, Argentina, born in Colon, Buenos Aires. But Selvetti, it was an improvised, and at the Olympics in 1952, had won the bronze medal with a total of 432 kilos, and the silver medal in the Pan American Games 1955 with a total of 457 kilos as well as being third in the World Championship in Stockholm in 1953 where he earned a total of 450 kilos.
duel begins, Selvetti in Starting, moving a whopping 175 kilos, leaving behind Anderson for 7.5 kilos. In clean and jerk, both athletes are able to lift 145 kilos, Selvetti matching the Olympic record. Finally, in the movement of "Force", the Argentinian managed to lift to the surprise of all 180 kilos, Anderson was forced to raise at least 187.5 (because there were failed in previous attempts) and being his last chance he did, matching the two athletes in a total of 500 kilos. But then, what was the reason that Paul Anderson will take the gold and Humberto Selvetti, the silver medal? Weight, but the athletes, the rules stated that even if the sum of the three movements would win who weighs less on the scale. Selvetti with 143 kilos, failed against Paul Anderson who was 138 kilos, a quite different girl who really should not make any difference, but ultimately, the ruler gave the winner the American. Selvetti, silver medal, was and will weightlifter most important of Argentina's history, the gym CENARD is named in recognition of his more than impressive performance in sports history. Eduardo Guerrero, Argentina, gold medal in the category Double Sculls at the Olympics in 1952 said of his countryman in a paper file of the Nation "was a phenomenon Selvetti. It looked like a butcher, but was born with terrible conditions. No had a good mechanism to lift weights, but his power allowed him to raise whatever ...". In 1957 Selvetti again compete in the World Championship Surveys, this time in Tehran, placing second with a total of 485 kilos, and in 1959 at the Pan American returns to finish second with a total of 475 kilos.
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Today we will talk about one of the most necessary and also controversial in the history of strength and bodybuilding, Bob Hoffman. Without a doubt, was a key figure in the development of these sports, although he had reservations about bodybuilding, since for him, building muscle mass devenia of strength training and power, but in itself not kept as important as lifting. It is for this reason that Hoffman is a key personality in the birth and evolution of powerlifting and weightlifting in North America, and much will have to do with the preparation of athletes during the cold war period where the search for the nation was stronger hand of the sport. Among the champions who came under the tutelage of Hoffman can appoint John Grimek, Steve Stanko, and Tommy Konno (gold medal in the lightweight category in 1952 Olympics Hensinki, Finland). Historically, Hoffman was born in Tifton, Georgia on November 9, 1898. As a child, begins to have contact with the force (his father was a strongman) and his 5 years he moved to Wilkinsburg near Pittsburgh. Already in his youth related to sports, showing their skills for the sport and shine in the aquatic specialty. On his return from World War I, Hoffman is back with medals and honors and settled in York. Is about in 1923 when he founded his company "The York Barbell Company (still in operation http://www.yorkbarbell.com/ ) where marketed bars, weights, dumbbells, elements and apparatus for training of force. In addition, as a coach and nutritionist, trained and dedicated lifters in the business of supplementation (two places from which had its differences with Charles Atlas and his theory of dynamic tension with Joe Weider on the side of sports supplements.) The York Barbell Broad Street Gym was the gym where his athletes would train, and Strength and Health magazine, owned, an icon of physical culture of the time. Among his books and classics can be named "Weightlifting" ( Weight Lifting by Bob Hoffman) published in 1939, "The simplified system of Bob Hoffman of training bar" (Bob Hoffman's Simplified System of Barbell Training) published in 1940, "Advanced method of weight training" Advanced Methods of Weight Training published in 1951. In one of his books is a phrase that describes his personality and his role in one of the most important periods and also contested in the history of the strength and bodybuilding "Bring me a man who is ambitious, with a strong desire to be champion and nine times out of ten will be champion. " Finally in July 1985 suffering from heart disease die, but his legacy continues and his work can be criticized or praised, but Hoffman is without a doubt, essential in the evolution of the strength sports.
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