WEIGHT-LIFTING.
SEVERAL RECORDS ESTABLISHED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. A demonstration of weight-lifting wis given to-night, and J. Cooper, a featherweight, set a new Dominion two-arm curl record of IOOJIb. The previous record was 0211b. Cooper also established a new record for the pull-over and press in a wrestler's bridge of 164J1b. The previous record was 1401b. With the greatest of ease Copper broke the Australia and New Zealand two-hand dead-lift records of 3.T011) and 3291b respectively. He lifted 30,'ijlb. L. Woolcott established a new Dominion rectangular fix record with a lift of lOQilb, and Improved upon the New Zealand right-arm curl record of 001b by GJlb. Later Woolcott broke the New Zealand two-arm curl record, which stood at 1271b, by lifting 1281b. In the middle-weight class, F." Kidd established a new Dominion record for an abdominal raise of SOJlb.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 232, 30 September 1936, Page 19
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