She is an Olympic weightlifter and powerlifter. Paul Edward Anderson (October 17, 1932August 15, 1994) was an American weightlifter, strongman and powerlifter. He is a former Olympic weightlifter and retired strongman competitor. Before becoming a professional wrestler, Patera was a highly decorated Olympic weightlifter. His father was a wrestler and weightlifter. Politician and former Olympic weightlifter Yury Vlasov ran as an independent candidate. Holley Mangold is also a weightlifter in the superheavyweight division. After his successes as a weightlifter, he became a professional wrestler. Tia-Clair Toomey (born 22 July 1993) is an Australian weightlifter and CrossFit Games athlete. She is engaged to another Egyptian Olympic weightlifter, Ragab Abdelhay. It sent three competitors to its first Olympics, two sprinters and a weightlifter. He is an Olympic-level weightlifter and has extraordinary agility and reflexes. Kianoush Rostami (, born 23 July 1991) is an Iranian Olympian weightlifter. At the 1964 Summer Olympics he finished second, after another Soviet weightlifter, Leonid Zhabotinsky. Howard was also a practitioner and fan of boxing, as well as an avid weightlifter.