![]() Ymer Pampuri after being crowned world champion | ||||||||||||
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Born | 30 April 1944 Tiranë, German-occupied Albania | |||||||||||
Died | 18 January 2017 | (aged 72)|||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||
Event | 60 kg | |||||||||||
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Ymer Pampuri (30 April 1944 – 18 January 2017) was an Albanian weightlifter who in the 1972 Summer Olympic Games became the first Albanian to break an Olympic record, the first Albanian to become a World Champion and the last World Champion in military press, since the discipline was no longer allowed to be practiced internationally after 1972.
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