Masters Lifters

Len Bacino Demon­strates the Snatch

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Step-​​by-​​step pho­tos and video of assis­tant coach and mas­ters lifter Len Bacino snatch­ing 105 kg.
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Video: LBH Lifter Tom Hughes Places First at 2011 Pan Amer­i­can Masters

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Long-​​​​time LBH lifter Tom Hughes keeps his win­ning streak alive by plac­ing first in his class (60–64 age group/​​105kg) at this year’s Pan Amer­i­can Mas­ters. Here’s video of his win­ning clean and jerk at 94 kg: Age group: 60–64     …
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Video: LBH Lifter Tom Hughes Places First at 2011 National Masters

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Long-​​​​time LBH lifter Tom Hughes placed first in his class (60–64 age group/​​94kg) at this year’s Nation­als Mas­ters. Good job, Tom! Here’s video of his win­ning clean and jerk at 93 kg: Age group: 60–64     Class: 94kg     Born: …
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Sticky: Help us update our con­tact list

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Simma Park
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More peo­ple than we can count have graced the plat­forms at LBH since Mor­ris Weiss­brot founded the Olympic weightlift­ing pro­gram in 1962. We’re try­ing to com­pile an e-​​​​mail list of cur­rent and past LBH team mem­bers as well as update the …
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Dan Boland

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Hail­ing from upstate New York, Dan con­tacted the Lost Bat­tal­ion Hall web­site say­ing he wanted to learn how to Olympic lift. Less than a year later, Dan has already totaled in 3 weightlift­ing meets. Dan is nat­u­rally strong and has been …
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Este­ban “Steve” Sanchez

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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When Steve strolled into the gym he never real­ized he would open up a new chap­ter of his life: Olympic Lift­ing. Dili­gently train­ing 2–3 times a week under Coach Tri­olo, Steve has steadily increased his lifts and has totaled in …
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Dave Bruzzi

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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In the United States today I believe there is no active lifter with such a var­ied and con­sis­tent Olympic weightlift­ing résumé: Nation­ally ranked as a junior, national, and mas­ter lifter, a national and world record holder, one of the few exist­ing …
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Jeff Scott

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Jeff started lift­ing again after a 20 year hia­tus. A West Point grad­u­ate who retired from the US Army, Jeff resides in Westch­ester County with his wife and two girls. Jeff was also a nation­ally ranked ham­mer thrower in his …
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Barry Ruben­stein

Posted on March 23, 2006 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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Barry Ruben­stein was one of the early Lost Bat­tal­ion Hall lifters in the late 1960s and 1970s, and one of the last lifters to be coached by Mor­ris Weiss­brot. After being away from the weightlift­ing scene for over 20 years, …
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Savas Kap­patos

Posted on November 11, 2005 by Lost Battalion Hall Weightlifting
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One of the strongest mas­ter lifters in the world, win­ner of a sil­ver medal in the 2005 Euro­pean Mas­ters Weightlift­ing Cham­pi­onships in Slo­va­kia, Savas is an an inspi­ra­tion to us all. In between train­ing Savas assists Coach Joe Tri­olo with the …
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