Richard Tom
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Template:Wikidata imageScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Richard Wah Sung Tom (November 8, 1920 – February 20, 2007) was a Chinese American bantamweight weightlifter. He won a silver medal at the 1947 World Championships and a bronze at the 1948 Olympics.[1] In 1952 he won his only national AAU title and later served as a weightlifting official. Tom was a World War II veteran. He was born in China, but his family moved to Hawaii when he was a boy.[2] He was the first Chinese-American to compete for the United States at the Olympics.[3]
References
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- ↑ Richard Tom. chidlovski.net
- ↑ Richard Tom – Olympian Weightlifter, 1948. chssc.org
- ↑ Rich Tom. sports-reference.com
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- 1920 births
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- Weightlifters at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in weightlifting
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- American military personnel of World War II
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
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- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
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