Charles Vinci

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Charles Vinci
medal table

Weightlifter

United States
Olympic games
gold 1956 Melbourne Bantam
gold 1960 Rome Bantam
World Championship
silver 1955 Munich Bantam
silver 1958 Stockholm Bantam
Pan American Games
gold 1955 Mexico City Bantam
gold 1959 Chicago Bantam

"Chuck" Vinci (born February 28, 1933 in Cleveland / Ohio ; † June 13, 2018 ) was an American weightlifter

Career

Charles Vinci was the son of Italian immigrants to the United States . He grew up in Cleveland and engaged in bodybuilding and weight lifting as a teenager . When he showed a good disposition in weightlifting in regional competitions, he was brought to the York Barbell Club by the mentor of the American weightlifting, Bob Hofmann, and generously supported because the American weightlifting team, which at the time made the weightlifters the Soviet Union was fighting for supremacy in the world, good weightlifters needed in the light weight classes. "Chuck" Vinci, who was only five feet tall, fully justified this trust, as he began a great weightlifting career in 1955 , which culminated in winning two Olympic gold medals .

International success

year space competition Competition type Weight class Results
1955 1. PanAm Games in Mexico City OD Bantam with 300 kg, before Famiglietti, Panama , 287.5 kg
1955 2. World Cup in Munich OD Bantam with 317.5 kg, behind Wladimir Stogow , USSR , 335 kg and in front of Mahmoud Namdjou , Iran , 312.5 kg
1956 gold OS in Melbourne OD Bantam with 342.5 kg, ahead of Wladimir Stogow, 337.5 kg and Mahmoud Namdjou, 332.5 kg
1958 2. World Cup in Stockholm OD Bantam with 327.5 kg, behind Wladimir Stogow, 342.5 g and in front of Sonboli, Iran, 312.5 kg
1959 1. PanAm Games in Chicago OD Bantam with 325 kg, before Sobers, West India, 295 kg
1960 gold OS in Rome OD Bantam weighing 345 kg, ahead of Yoshinobu Miyake , Japan , 337.5 kg and Elmkah, Iran, 330 kg
1961 4th World Cup in Vienna OD Bantam with 327.5 kg, behind Wladimir Stogow, 345 kg, Imre Földi , Hungary , 345 kg and Yoshinobu Miyake, 337.5 kg
Explanations
  • OD = Olympic three-way fight, consisting of two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing
  • OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
  • Bantam weight, at that time up to 56 kg body weight

USA championships

  • 1954, 1st place, Ba, with 282.5 kg;
  • 1955, 1st place, Ba, with 315 kg;
  • 1956, 1st place, Ba, with 312.5 kg, ahead of Juarez, 295 kg;
  • 1958, 1st place, Ba, with 325 kg, in front of Famiglietti, 285 kg;
  • 1959, 1st place, Ba, with 317.5 kg, in front of Moyer, 290 kg;
  • 1960, 1st place, Ba, with 317.5 kg;
  • 1961, 1st place, Ba, with 330 kg

World records

(all achieved in bantamweight)

when pressing with both arms:

  • 110 kg, 1959 in Chicago

in two-armed tearing:

  • 101 kg, 1955 in Mexico City,
  • 102.5 kg, 1955 in Munich,
  • 103 kg, 1955 in Calcutta ,
  • 104.5 kg, 1955 in New Delhi ,
  • 105 kg, 1955 in Basra ,
  • 107.5 kg, 1960 in Rome

in two-armed thrusting:

  • 131.5 kg, 1955 in Calcutta,
  • 132.5 kg, 1955 in New York ,
  • 134.5 kg, 1956 in Chicago

in the Olympic three-way battle:

  • 342.5 kg, 1956 in Melbourne,
  • 345 kg, 1960 in Rome

literature

  • Athletics magazine

Web links
personal data
SURNAME Vinci, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vinci, Chuck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 2018