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The World Title – XX Olympic Games of Munich 1972

Ymer Pampuri,the first Albanian World Champion, and «1972-1991»: the Golden Twenty-Year Period of Albanian Weightlifting by Giovanni Armillotta University of Pisa – ITALY.

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The World Title – XX Olympic Games of Munich 1972

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  1. Ymer Pampuri,the first Albanian World Champion, and «1972-1991»:the Golden Twenty-Year Periodof Albanian Weightliftingby Giovanni ArmillottaUniversity of Pisa – ITALY

  2. When in 1972 Albania began the Golden Twenty-Year of her Weightlifting was only 2,297,000 inhabitants, equivalent to the current population of the Italian province of Turin.And it’s amazing how some few citizens who practiced a sport non-mainstream, they were able to lead the Country at the heights of the Olympics, and World, European, Balkan Championships and Mediterranean Games.

  3. The World Title – XX Olympic Games of Munich 1972

  4. The discovered in Albania of Ymer Pampuri’s World Title

  5. Why the World Champion, Ymer Pampuri, and the Albanian people for almost three decades have never known the greatest successof the Albanian sports of all time? • All this happened because the weightlifting Albanian delegation after the competition it went immediately to the hotel and then returned to her Homeland, since the Olympic Games ended 13 days later, and at the closing ceremony would be attended by other athletes of Albania. It was customary that the Albanian athletes, when they were abroad, they did not have a shower in the sports complex but at the hotel, and all this for ministerial orders. • So when the International Weightlifting Federation officials travelled to Munich Fair Company – which hosted the competitions – to deliver the diploma of World Champion of Press (–60 kg.) to Ymer Pampuri, they had not found none and the media of Albania and its sportsmen and fans never knew the World Title until 2001. • It should also be said that the Albania Weightlifting Federation (Federata Shqiptare e Peshëngritjes) had not subscribed to the official review of IWF, where surely the event had been reported. • It should be also reported another thing: the IWF could also send by surface mail to the Albania Weightlifting Federation the communication and the diploma of Ymer Pampuri, World Champion, but IWF never did. I believe because – IWF being controlled by the pro-Soviet countries – also an Albanian sport success could give political annoyance. Moreover Ymer Pampuri just do beat Soviet Dito Ivanovič Šanidze and legendary Bulgarian Norajr Nurikijan: the second and the third had equal weight lifted, but they were heavier in build.

  6. AFTER YMER PAMPURI, SUCCESSES DIDN’T END!45 gold, 39 silver and 81 bronze medals in competitions 1972-1991

  7. OVERALL TABLE OF GREATER SUCCESSESOF ALBANIAN NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE5th Balkan Junior Championship 1989 (Kladovo, Yugoslavia, July 21th-23rd) ALBANIA: BALKAN CHAMPION68th European Championship/62nd World Championship 1989(Athens, Greece, September 16th-23rd)ALBANIA: FOURTH IN EUROPE AND THIRTEENTH IN THE WORLDEuropean Cup 1989 (Sofia, Bulgaria Dec. 16th-17th)ALBANIA: THIRD IN EUROPEAN CUP69th European Champ. 1990 (Aalborg, Denmark, May 14th-20th)ALBANIA: THIRD IN EUROPE6th Balkan Junior Championship 1990 (Korçë, Albania, July 20th-22th)ALBANIA: BALKAN CHAMPIONEuropean Cup 1990 (Antalya, Turkey, December 1st) ALBANIA: SECOND IN EUROPEAN CUP THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR AUTHORITATIVE ATTENTION!

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