Athlete
Ken Patera
American Olympic weightlifter and former WWF Intercontinental Champion
5 sourced records. Each exercise has a top recorded mark and its evidence. Check the date, age, effort and method before you compare.
Ken Patera Snatch
Ken Patera's recorded Snatch is 386.5 lb. Performance date: 1972-07-23. This was a competition result. The source at cbass.com gives this mark. Source type: news report. Confidence is medium.
Pre-Olympic meet, San Francisco · Olympic weightlifter before his professional wrestling career
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“his 386 1/2 in San Francisco on July 23, 1972”
The date belongs to the San Francisco contest described in Clarence Bass’s review of Bruce Wilhelm’s Patera biography. The same lifting account explicitly uses pounds; its fractional loads are stored as exact decimals. The press was the historical Olympic clean and press. Bodyweight for this meet is unknown; the later Olympic weigh-in is not used.
1972
- Snatch386.5 lb
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“his 386 1/2 in San Francisco on July 23, 1972”
Ken Patera Clean and jerk
Ken Patera's recorded Clean and jerk is 505.5 lb. Performance date: 1972-07-23. This was a competition result. The source at cbass.com gives this mark. Source type: news report. Confidence is medium.
Pre-Olympic meet, San Francisco · Olympic weightlifter before his professional wrestling career
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“clean and jerked 505 1/2”
The date belongs to the San Francisco contest described in Clarence Bass’s review of Bruce Wilhelm’s Patera biography. The same lifting account explicitly uses pounds; its fractional loads are stored as exact decimals. The press was the historical Olympic clean and press. Bodyweight for this meet is unknown; the later Olympic weigh-in is not used.
1972
- Clean and jerk505.5 lb
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“clean and jerked 505 1/2”
Ken Patera Clean and press (Olympic style)
Ken Patera's recorded Clean and press (Olympic style) is 505.5 lb. Performance date: 1972-07-23. This was a competition result. The source at cbass.com gives this mark. Source type: news report. Confidence is medium.
Pre-Olympic meet, San Francisco · Olympic weightlifter before his professional wrestling career
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“pressed 505 1/2”
The date belongs to the San Francisco contest described in Clarence Bass’s review of Bruce Wilhelm’s Patera biography. The same lifting account explicitly uses pounds; its fractional loads are stored as exact decimals. The press was the historical Olympic clean and press. Bodyweight for this meet is unknown; the later Olympic weigh-in is not used.
1972
- Clean and press (Olympic style)505.5 lb
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“pressed 505 1/2”
Ken Patera Push jerk
Ken Patera's recorded Push jerk is 518 lb. Performance date: 1970. The recorded effort was a max or PR. The source at cbass.com gives this mark. Source type: news report. Confidence is medium.
Training hall before the World Weightlifting Championships, Columbus · Olympic weightlifter before his professional wrestling career
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“push-jerked 518”
This is a completed training-hall lift reported in Clarence Bass’s review of Bruce Wilhelm’s Patera biography. The account identifies the 1970 World Championships and uses pounds for its lifting loads. Exact training day, reps and bodyweight are unknown.
1970
- Push jerk518 lb
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“push-jerked 518”
Ken Patera Clean (style unspecified)
Ken Patera's recorded Clean (style unspecified) is 500 lb. Performance date: 1969-12-06. The effort is unknown. The source at strengthandpowerhalloffame.com gives this mark. Source type: news report. Confidence is medium.
Olympic weightlifter before his professional wrestling career
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“officially clean 500lbs on 12/6/1969”
The historical account gives this feat date explicitly. It calls the clean official but does not name a meet or give bodyweight. Style is unspecified; this is not classified as a power clean.
1969
- Clean (style unspecified)500 lb
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“officially clean 500lbs on 12/6/1969”
Photo: Panini, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.