History of Olympic Weightlifting
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1966 World Championship, East Berlin, East Germany: One of the world top guns in the middleweight of the 1960s, Hanz Zdrazila (Czechoslovakia) wins the bronze World Championship medal in East Berlin. Zdrazila won the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and set four world records during his career in a highly competitive weightclass.
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