The strongest athletes in the history

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The strongest athletes in the history

Paul Anderson. This athlete was born in 1932 in Georgia, in the farmer’s family. In his early years he trained in weight lifting by using a homemade barbells constructed by his father. It was long and sturdy sticks with a large cement blotches on the ends. Paul Anderson twice, in 1955 and 1956, was the winner of the national championship in weightlifting. In 1955 he won a gold medal and in 1956 the title of world champion. However, his greatest achievement was not sports awards, but “Paul Anderson’s Boarding school”, a shelter for children in difficult life situations.