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The typical techniques in the Olympic snatch and the clean and jerk are shown at various stages of the movements.

American weight lifter Tommy Kono performing the winning clean and jerk lift to become the World Middleweight Champion at the 1959 World Weightlifting Championships in Warsaw.

Tommy Kono on his way to winning the silver medal in the middleweight weightlifting competition at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Miyake Yoshinobu at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games

Tommy Kono at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games

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The typical techniques in the Olympic snatch and the clean and jerk are shown at various stages of the movements.

American weight lifter Tommy Kono performing the winning clean and jerk lift to become the World Middleweight Champion at the 1959 World Weightlifting Championships in Warsaw.

Tommy Kono on his way to winning the silver medal in the middleweight weightlifting competition at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Miyake Yoshinobu at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games

Tommy Kono at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games

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Tommy Kono on his way to winning the silver medal in the middleweight weightlifting competition at the 1960 Olympics in Rome.

Tommy Kono

American weightlifter

Halil Mutlu

Turkish weight lifter

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev

Soviet weightlifter

Naim Süleymanoğlu

Naim Süleymanoğlu

Turkish athlete

Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky

Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky

Soviet weightlifter

Miyake Yoshinobu at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games

Miyake Yoshinobu

Japanese athlete

Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games

Arkady Vorobyev

Soviet weightlifter

Charles Vinci

Charles Vinci

American weightlifter

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