On Track 2008 catalog - Strength Training Equipment

WEIGHT TRAINING

Strength Equipment - Medicine Balls
Free Weights and Accessories - Plates and weight racks
Accessories - Jump ropes, grips, body weight vest, and weight belts.

EVENTS

Throwing Weights - Training equipment for the throwing events.

BOOKS

Nutrition - Strength and nutrition.

Montreal was the stage on which Vasily Alexeev became the ninth weightlifter in history to win two Olympic gold medals. But the Soviet hero was thwarted in his quest to become the only man to win a thrid gold in the sport when he failed at his opening snatch of 180 kilos in Moscow.

French light heavyweight champion Charles Rigoulot helped transform his sport with his quick lifting style, which he used to take the gold medal at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris. He outlifted his closest competitor by over 27

Standing 4'8", Joseph de Pietro became the smallest-ever Olympic champion by lifting 305.5 kilos (676.5 lbs.) at the 1948 Olympic Games. This Herculean effort earned him the world bantamweight weightlifting record.