Richard Tom
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Richard Tom
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Richard Wah Sung Tom was a Chinese American bantamweight weightlifter. He won a silver medal at the 1947 World Championships and a bronze at the 1948 Olympics. 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. He was the first Chinese-American to compete for the United States at the Olympics.
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American weightlifter
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tom
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2008-02-22T21:24:49Z
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2024-09-10T11:12:27Z
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