Profile details
- Born
- 10 May 1925
- Birthplace
- Armstrong
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- Weightlifting
- Discipline
- Strength
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, height, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- No recorded honours or awards.
Competition Appearances
2 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·1952 Summer Olympics – men's 82.5 kg
- ·1948 Summer Olympics – men's 82.5 kg
Career Timeline
- 1948Competed at weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics – men's 82.5 kg
- 1952Competed at weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics – men's 82.5 kg
Statistics
About
Stanley Anthony "Stan" Stanczyk (May 10, 1925 – July 3, 1997) was an American weightlifter. Between 1946 and 1952 he won five consecutive world titles in three different weight classes, six consecutive national titles, as well as gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics and 1951 Pan American Games. In 1946–1949 he set seven ratified world records: four in the snatch, one in the clean and jerk and two in the total.
Biography adapted from Stanley Stanczyk on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.