Sidney Henry

Sidney Henry
Personal information
Surname:	Sidney Henry
Nationality:	United States
Society:	Preston Lions
Date of birth:	April 21, 1935
Place of birth:	Dallas , Texas
Medal table

Sidney Henry (born April 21, 1935 in Dallas , Texas ) is a retired American weightlifter .

Career

The Texan began his career as a weightlifter with the YMCA Sports Club in Dallas in the mid-1950s. In the youth and junior division he did not get beyond mediocre results. He first drew attention to himself in 1958 when he achieved 422.5 kg in the Olympic three-way fight at a regional event in the middle heavyweight division (at that time up to 90 kg body weight) and thus advanced into the extended circle of American top lifters. At the YMCA Championships in 1958 and the USA Championships in 1959, however, he failed to make a valid attempt in pushing and so was not included in the ranking. From 1961, after he switched to the heavyweight division and started for the Preston Lions, he came to some very good results at USA championships, the Pan American Games and at world championships. But Norbert Schemansky and Gary Gubner blocked the jump to the 1964 Olympic Games .

In 2009, Henry was inducted into the Texas Weightlifting Hall of Fame .

International success

(WM = world championship, S = heavyweight)

• 1961, 5th place , World Cup in Vienna , S, with 452.5 kg, behind Juri Vlasow , Soviet Union , 525 kg, Richard Zirk , United States , 475 kg, Eino Mäkinen , Finland , 362.5 kg and Károly Ecser , Hungary , 455 kg;
• 1963, 1st place , Pan American Games in São Paulo , S, with 465 kg in front of Brandon Baney, Trinidad and Tobago , 442.5 kg and Eduardo Adriana , Curaçao , 435 kg;
• 1964, 4th place , World Championships in Stockholm , S, with 517.5 kg, behind Vlasow, 537.5 kg, Schemansky, 537.5 kg and Leonid Schabotinski , USSR, 527.5 kg

USA championships

• 1957, 2nd place, Ms, with 422.5 kg, behind Norbert Schemansky , 447.5 kg and in front of Stanley Stanczyk , 420 kg;
• 1961, 2nd place, S, with 472.5 kg, behind James Bradford , 480 kg;
• 1962, 2nd place, S, with 485 kg, behind Schemansky, 517.5 kg and in front of Lee Philipps, 480 kg;
• 1963, 1st place, S, with 510 kg, ahead of Schemansky, 507.5 kg and Martin Weckstein, 430 kg;
• 1964, 2nd place, S, with 462.5 kg, behind Schemansky, 522.5 kg and in front of Tommy Suggs, 455 kg

Web links

• Brief portrait of Sidney Henry

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Strongest Man in Texas ( English ) In: Strength & Health Magazine . spoonbarbellclub.com. December 1, 1963. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 20, 2015. 
2. ↑ spoonbarbellclub.com: Sid Henry's Texas Weightlifting Hall of Fame Certification . 2009. Archived from the original on February 20, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 20, 2015.