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Tom Platz (right) 1995 with Paolo Tassetto

Thomas Steven "Tom" Platz , (born June 26, 1955 in Fort Sill , Oklahoma ) is an American bodybuilder , known as "The Golden Eagle".

Life

Thomas Steven Platz was born on an army base in Fort Sill . At Christmas 1965, his parents gave him a Joe Weider weight set, which Platz said immediately knew that it would change his life. Tom Platz's competitive career began in 1973 with the participation in the Mr. Adonis competition. Eight years later he reached the peak of his career when he finished 3rd in the international bodybuilding competition Mr. Olympia in 1981 , after failing to qualify for the final in 1980 when Arnold Schwarzenegger won his seventh and final title can.

At his best times in the 1980s, he said he was always between 95 and 108 kg in competitive form and had the best results with less than 30 mg testosterone injections per day.

There is general consensus among bodybuilders that Platz had the most prominent legs of the 1980s. They exceeded those of all other competitive bodybuilders at the time in terms of size, number of grooves and definition, so that Arnold Schwarzenegger was not able to keep up with this shape and size.

Jusup Wilkosz , the most successful German bodybuilder to date , said in an interview that he would sacrifice ten years of his life in order to be able to call legs and space his own. ("I'd give ten years of my life for legs like that.")

In 1986, Platz declared his retirement from competitive bodybuilding. Now (2012) he lives in Southern California, where he runs a fitness company with his wife, Cha Nikito-Platz. He also gives lectures on bodybuilding, nutrition and fitness.

Sporting successes

  • 1973 Mr. Adonis - AAU
  • 1979 Mr. Olympia 8th place (up to 200 pounds)
  • 1980 Mr. Olympia 9th place
  • 1980 Pro Mr. Universe 2nd place
  • 1981 Mr. Olympia 3rd place
  • 1982 Mr. Olympia 6th place
  • 1984 Mr. Olympia 10th place
  • 1985 Mr. Olympia 7th place
  • 1986 Mr. Olympia 11th place

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Biography of Tom Platz." Retrieved November 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ 'Mr. Olympia 'full results since 1965
  3. ↑ "Original from 1988 Tom Platz - the bodybuilding interview." Retrieved on November 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Legs of Tom Platz." Retrieved November 8, 2014.
  5. ^ "Jusup-Wilkosz-germany-s-best-ever-bodybuilder." Retrieved on November 8, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Interview with Tom Platz, Gaspari Nutrition." ( Memento from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved November 8, 2014.
  7. ↑ "IMDB bio of Tom Platz." Retrieved on November 9, 2014.

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personal data
SURNAME Place, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Place, Thomas Steven (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bodybuilder
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma