Big Paul Anderson was to strength athletics yesterday to what Usain Bolt is to Sprinting; Ahead of their time. Paul was a gentle giant who broke record after record in Olympic Lifting and the early years of Powerlifting and other strength feats from the 50's and 60's. Paul passed away in August, 1994 but his legacy still lives on at the Paul Anderson Youth Home.
Bruce Wilhelm, Powerlifter and 2x winner of the Worlds Strongest Man has thsi to say about Paul: "Absolutely no question, Paul was the Strongest of the Strong. His physical deterioration and prolonged illness for the last 16 years of his life was fate unbefitting such a great strongman and humanitarian. Paul was really a powerlifter and did the overhead lifts only because Powerlifting as a sport did not exist 40 years ago. He excelled and was world and Olympic champ because he was far stronger than anyone else. When I hear people talk that a Powerlifter will never win an Olympic Gold Medal, I tell them that Paul Anderson already did it, almost forty years ago."
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