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- Naim Suleymanoglu may
- be only 5' tall and weigh
- just 132 pounds, but he is
- one of the strongest men
- in the world. The ΓÇ£Pocket
- Hercules" was the second weightlifter in
- history to lift more than three times his body
- weight. He was also the youngest world-
- record holder in weightlifting history.
-
- Naim was born in Bulgaria, which was then
- ruled by a Communist dictatorship. When
- he was 12, the government sent him to a
- special school for promising athletes. In
- 1983, at age 15, Naim set a world record by
- lifting 629.8 pounds! That year he also set a
- world record in the clean-and-jerk
- competition, hoisting 353.6 pounds.
-