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NAIM SULEYMANOGLU

Turkish  World and Olympic Champion in  Weightlifting. NAIM SULEYMANOGLU. Naim Suleymanoglu,  formerly known as  Naim Suleiman ov is a  Turkish,  World and Olympic Champion in  weightlifting. WHO IS NAIM SULEYMANOGLU ?.

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NAIM SULEYMANOGLU

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  1. Turkish World and Olympic Champion in Weightlifting NAIM SULEYMANOGLU

  2. Naim Suleymanoglu,  formerly known as Naim Suleimanovis a Turkish, World and Olympic Champion in weightlifting. WHO IS NAIM SULEYMANOGLU ?

  3. He won three Olympic Championships, seven World Championships and six European Championships and earned 46 world records.

  4. His Biography andCareerof Weigtlifting. • He was bornin Bulgaria of Turkish descent. He was nicknamed due to his small stature of 1.47 m. He is the second of only seven lifters to cleanandjerk three times their bodyweight. • It is likely that Naim Suleymanogluis the strongest man who has ever lived, pound-for-pound. He set his first world record at age 15, and at the 1984 European Championships he became the second man to lift three times bodyweight overhead. 

  5. Suleymanogluwas also the first man to snatch 2½ times his own bodyweight (27 April 1988). Prior to the 1988 Olympics, he had set 32 world records before he was 22 years old. • At the 1988 Olympics, Suleymanogluwas absolutely dominant, lifting a weight which would have won the weight class above his

  6. Süleymanoğlu was World Champion at 60 kg. in 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1991 and European Champion in 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1988. He did not compete in 1987 because he had recently defected and was not allowed to until the Turkish authorities received permission from the Bulgarians. • In 1992 at Barcelona, he defended his Olympic championship despite his recent retirement, and he won his third Olympic gold medal in 1996 at Atlanta.  He also competed at Sydney in 2000 but failed to medal. 

  7. His MedalRecords OlympicGames: • GoldMedal in 1988,Seoul 60 kg. • GoldMedal in 1992, Barcelona 60 kg. • GoldMedal in 1996, Atlanta 64 kg.

  8. WorldChampionships: • GoldMedal in 1989, Athens 60 kg. • GoldMedal in1991, Donaueschingen 60kg. • GoldMedal in1993, Melbourne 64kg. • GoldMedal in1994, Istanbul 64 kg. • GoldMedal in 1995, Guangzhou 64kg.

  9. WorldChampionships (competitorforBulgaria): • GoldMedal in 1985, Södertälje 60kg. • GoldMedal in 1985, Södertälje 60kg. • SilverMedal in 1983, Moscow 56kg.

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