Charles Vinci

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Medal record
Men's weightlifting
Competitor for the Flag of the United States United States
Olympic Games
Gold 1956 Melbourne Bantamweight
Gold 1960 Rome Bantamweight
World championships
Silver 1955 Bantamweight
Silver 1958 Bantamweight
Pan American games
Gold 1955 Bantamweight
Gold 1959 Bantamweight

Charles Robert Vinci, Jr. (born February 28, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American weightlifter and Olympic champion.

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[edit] Olympics

He won a gold medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne,[1] and again at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[2]

[edit] International championships

Charles Vinci won gold medals at the 1955 and 1959 Pan American games. He received silver medals in the 1955 and 1958 world championships.

[edit] World records

During his career Vinci set 12 world records in the bantamweight class, between 1955 and 1960. He held records in snatch, in clean and jerk and in press, as well as in total (3).

[edit] References

  1. ^ "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Weightlifting" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 20, 2008)
  2. ^ "1960 Summer Olympics – Rome, Italy – Weightlifting" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 20, 2008)


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