Joe Pitman

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Joseph Prescott "Joe" Pitman (born August 21, 1924 in Laconia , New Hampshire - † June 1, 2018 ) was an American weightlifter.

Career

Joe Pitman of Chambersberg, PA, started lifting weights in 1945 and was just growing into the American top class when the famous Anthony Terlazzo , the 1936 Olympic gold medalist and multiple world champion, retired for reasons of age. The American Weightlifting Association was happy to have found a light top lifter in him again. Lightweight lifters have always been in short supply in the US team. In 1948 Joe Pitman started at the Olympic Games in London , but could not yet place in the front field. In 1950 he celebrated his greatest victory when he became world champion in the lightweight (up to 67.5 kg body weight at that time) in Paris . At the US championships he won in 1950 and 1951 over the young Thomas Kono , who blocked his way to the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . In the meantime, Joe started for Bob Hoffmann's York Barbell Club. Even when he moved to Miami to work as a teacher, he stayed with this club. In Miami he was trained and promoted by Stanley Stanczyk , the multiple world champion. Joe Pitman remained active until 1960 and won a total of ten USA championships.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Le = lightweight)

  • 1948, 8th place , OS in London , Le, with 322.5 kg, winner: Ibrahim Shams , Egypt , 360 kg, ahead of Attia Mohamed, Egypt, 360 kg;
  • 1949, 2nd place , World Championships in Scheveningen , Le, with 342.5 kg, behind Shams, 352.5 kg and in front of Arvid Andersson, Sweden , 322.5 kg;
  • 1950, 1st place , World Championships in Paris , Le, with 352.5 kg, ahead of Hamouda, 350 kg and Svetilko, USSR , 347.5 kg;
  • 1951, 1st place , PanAm Games in Buenos Aires , Le, with 345 kg, before de Souza, Trinidad and Tobago , 335 kg and D'Atri, Argentina , 317.5 kg;
  • 1951, 2nd place , World Championships in Milan , Le, with 337.5 kg, behind Shams, 342.5 kg and in front of Ferdows, Iran , 327.5 kg;
  • 1955, 1st place , PanAm Games in Mexico City, Le, with 355 kg, ahead of Ambroise Cornet (DUA), 335 kg and Emilio Gonzales, Argentina, 327.5 kg;

International battles

  • 1955, international competition - USSR in Moscow , Le, 340 kg - Nikolai Kostylev , 375 kg;
  • 1955, international match - USSR in Leningrad, Le, 342.5 kg - Alexander Falameev , 375 kg;
  • 1955, international match - Iran in Tehran, Le, 345 kg - Namvar, 335 kg

USA championships

  • 1947, 1st place, Le, with 320 kg;
  • 1948, 1st place, Le, with 330 kg;
  • 1949, 1st place, Le, with 332.5 kg;
  • 1950, 1st place, Le, with 347.5 kg, in front of Thomas Kono , 345 kg and Dave Sheppard , 345 kg;
  • 1951, 1st place, Le, with 352.5 kg, in front of Kono, 345 kg;
  • 1952, 3rd place, Le, with 345 kg, behind Kono, 362.5 kg and Frank Spellman , 347.5 kg;
  • 1953, 1st place, Le, with 337.5 kg, ahead of White, 307.5 kg;
  • 1954, 1st place, Le, with 342.5 kg;
  • 1955, 1st place, Le, with 347.5 kg;
  • 1956, 1st place, Le, with 357.5 kg, ahead of Greenawalt, 337.5 kg and Talluto, 327.5 kg;
  • 1957, 1st place, Le, with 350 kg, in front of Torres, 340 kg and Talluto, 337.5 kg;
  • 1958, 2nd place, Le, with 350 kg, behind Kenji Ōnuma , 360 kg
  • 1960, 4th place, Le, with 330 kg, behind Anthony Garcy , 355 kg, Larry Mintz, 345 kg and Vince Doniero, 340 kg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary. In: legacy.com. September 5, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pitman, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pitman, Joseph Prescott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Laconia
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 2018