Results tagged “John Grimek” from York Town Square

Look mom, only one hand. Legendary bodybuilder John Grimek lifts a York Barbell. Grimek scored a ninth-place finish in heavyweight competition in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Everytime you go into John D. Fair's "Muscletown USA" (Penn State Press), you come out with fascinating stuff about York county weightlifting history.

It's one of those books that keeps providing tidbits, even after you've read it. The book focuses around the life and times of weightlifting and bodybuilding guru Bob Hoffman and his legacy company, York Barbell.

For example:

This panel, part of the Murals of York series, features two York-based Olympic weightlifters, Tommy Kono, center, and John Grimek, right. That's York Barbell's Bob Hoffman, four-time Olympic coach, at left.

Angela Grimek's grandchildren want to recognize their grandmother's June 24 birthday.

The wife of the late Mr. America and Mr. USA weightlifter John Grimek is turning 90.

This is a reminder that York County is not long past those days when it billed itself as Muscletown USA.

John Grimek was among the most successful of the musclemen training under the tutelage of Bob Hoffman, founder of York Barbell Co.... .