WEIGHT-LIFTING FEATS
NEW RECORDS SET DISPLAY IN WELLINGTON (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. At a demonstration of weight-lift-ing hist night, J. Cooper, a featherweight, set a new New Zealand twoarm f-uil record of JOOfJlb. The previous record was 92§lb. Cooper established a new record for a pull over and press in a wrestler's bridge of 3(5-411). The previous record was 1401 b,
With the greatest ease, Cooper broke the Australian and New Zealand, two-hand, dead-lift records of 3501 b. and 3231 b. respectively. Ho lifted 363J1b. L. Wooleotfc established a new New Zealand record for a rectangular fix with a lift erf 109-Jlb., and beat the New Zealand right-arm curl record of 601 b. by Later Woolcott broke the New Zealand two-arm curl record, which stood at .1271 b., by lifting J2B lb. ' y
In the middleweight class, F. Kidd established a new New Zealand record for an abduminal raise of GGJIb.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 8
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