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Doug Hepburn

Index Doug Hepburn

Douglas Ivan Hepburn (September 16, 1926 – November 22, 2000) was a Canadian strongman and weightlifter. [1]

31 relations: Alcoholism, Bench press, British Columbia, Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, Clean and jerk, Clean and press, Cliff Parker (footballer), Clubfoot, Commonwealth Games, Depression (mood), Esotropia, Fritz Von Erich, Josh Levin, Lou Marsh Trophy, Maple Leaf Wrestling, NWA San Francisco, Olympic weightlifting, Professional wrestling, Progression of the bench press world record, San Francisco, Slate (magazine), Snatch (weightlifting), Stockholm, Strongman (strength athlete), Toronto, Vancouver, Whipper Billy Watson, World Weightlifting Championships, YMCA, 1953 World Weightlifting Championships.

Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Bench press

The bench press is an upper body strength training exercise that consists of pressing a weight upwards from a supine position.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (Panthéon des sports canadiens) is a hall of fame established in 1955 to "preserve the record of Canadian sports achievements and to promote a greater awareness of Canada's heritage of sport.". The Canadian Encyclopedia It is located at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.

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Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame

The Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame is an honour roll of the top Canadian Olympic athletes, teams, coaches, and builders (officials, administrators, and volunteers).

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Clean and jerk

The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk.

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Clean and press

The clean and press is a variation of the overhead press weight training exercise and was part of the sport of weightlifting in the Olympics until 1972, when it was removed due to difficulties in judging proper technique.

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Cliff Parker (footballer)

Henry Clifford Parker (6 September 1913 – 1983) was an English footballer born in Denaby, Yorkshire, who played as an outside left for Doncaster Rovers and Portsmouth in the Football League.

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Clubfoot

Clubfoot is a birth defect where one or both feet are rotated inwards and downwards.

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Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games are an international multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Depression (mood)

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, tendencies, feelings, and sense of well-being.

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Esotropia

Esotropia is a form of strabismus in which one or both eyes turns inward.

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Fritz Von Erich

Jack Barton Adkisson Sr. (August 16, 1929 – September 10, 1997) was an American professional wrestler known more under the ring name Fritz Von Erich, better known today as a wrestling promoter and the patriarch of the Von Erich family.

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Josh Levin

Josh Levin (born 1980) is an American writer and the executive editor at ''Slate'' magazine.

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Lou Marsh Trophy

The Lou Marsh Trophy, also known as the Lou Marsh Memorial Trophy and Lou Marsh Award, is a trophy that is awarded annually to Canada's top athlete, professional or amateur.

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Maple Leaf Wrestling

Maple Leaf Wrestling was the unofficial name in the 1970s and 1980s of the professional wrestling promotion run by Frank Tunney in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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NWA San Francisco

NWA San Francisco was a professional wrestling promotion headquartered in San Francisco, California in the United States.

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Olympic weightlifting

Weightlifting, also called '''Olympic-style weightlifting''', or Olympic weightlifting, is an athletic discipline in the modern Olympic programme in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Progression of the bench press world record

Bench press world records are the international records in bench press across the years, regardless of weight class or governing organization, for bench pressing on the back without using a bridge technique.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Slate (magazine)

Slate is an online magazine that covers current affairs, politics, and culture in the United States from a liberal perspective.

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Snatch (weightlifting)

The snatch is the first of two lifts contested in the sport of weightlifting (also known as Olympic weightlifting) followed by the clean and jerk.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Strongman (strength athlete)

A strongman is a man who competes in strength athletics.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Whipper Billy Watson

William John Potts, (June 25, 1915 – February 4, 1990) was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson, and was a two-time world heavyweight wrestling champion.

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World Weightlifting Championships

The World Weightlifting Championships is an event organised by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

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YMCA

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), often simply called the Y, is a worldwide organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 58 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.

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1953 World Weightlifting Championships

The 1953 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Stockholm, Sweden from August 26 to August 28, 1953.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Hepburn

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