WEIGHT-LIFTING FEATS
MANY RECORDS BROKEN SUCCESSES OF J. COOPER [by TELEORArn —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday A demonstration of weight-lifting was given last night, and J. Cooper, a feather-weight, sot a new Dominion two-arm curl record of The previous record was 92 J lb. Cooper also established a new record for the pullover and press in a wrestler's bridge of 16441b. The previous record was 1401b. With the greatest of ease, Cooper broke the Australian and New Zealand two-hand dead-lift records of 3501b. and 3291b. respectively. He lifted 36311b. L. Woolcott established a new Dominion rectangular fix record with a lift of 109}lb. and improved upon the New Zealand right-arm curl record of 601b. by„ 6-Jlb. 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 56ilb.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22538, 1 October 1936, Page 15
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