#Biscuit oliva weight professional#
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The only bodybuilder to ever defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Mr Olympia contest, 1969.He served the city of Chicago as a police officer for more than 25 years.1980 World Championships – WABBA, Professional, 1st.1977 World Championships – WABBA, Professional, 1st.1974 Mr International – WBBG, Professional, 1st.1973 Mr International – IFBB, Professional, 1st.1966 Junior Mr America – AAU, Most Muscular.1965 Junior Mr America – AAU, Most Muscular.Olympia title three years in a row, at 5 feet 10 inches and at a contest weight of around 225 lbs. Olympia contest, making him the undisputed world champion of bodybuilding.

#Biscuit oliva weight professional#

He then joined the International Federation of BodyBuilders IFBB in which he won both the professional Mr. America and again he claimed the trophy for “Most Muscular”. America winning 2nd place even though he won the trophy for “Most Muscular”. Illinois in 1964 but he lost in 1965 at the AAU Jr. Oliva won his first bodybuilding competition the Mr. Soon the bodybuilding grapevine was abuzz with gossip about a Cuban powerhouse who lifted more than any of the local Olympic champs.

Working 10-12 hour days at the steel mill and putting in another 2.5–3 hours at the gym gave Oliva very little time for anything else. There he worked at a local steel mill and began working out at the Duncan YMCA.

In 1963 Oliva moved to Chicago, Illinois.

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Soon afterward, Oliva was living in Miami, Florida working as a TV repairman. Soon, sixty-five other Cuban nationals followed him, including Castro’s entire weightlifting team. Arriving breathlessly he demanded and received political asylum. He ran at top speed until he was safely inside the American consulate. During his stay in Jamaica, Oliva snuck out of his quarters while the guards were distracted. In 1962 the National Weightlifting Championship for Cuba was won by Alberto Rey Games Hernandez Sergio Oliva took second place. Games, he was chosen to represent Cuba at the 1962 Central America Games hosted in Kingston, Jamaica. Because of an injury of the top weightlifter, Alberto R. After just six months of training Oliva was doing clean & jerks with over 300 pounds and totaling 1000 pounds in the three Olympic lifts at a bodyweight of 195 lbs, considered a middle-heavyweight. There he met a fellow sun worshipper who invited him to the local weightlifting club. After losing the war to Fidel Castro, Oliva stayed local and took to hanging out at the beach. In the absence of a birth certificate, the recruiting officer took the senior Oliva’s word that his son was old enough to enlist in the fight against communism. When Oliva was 16, his father suggested that he enlist in Fulgencio Batista’s army. At the age of twelve he worked with his father in the sugar cane fields of Guanabacoa. Wayne had begun calling Oliva “The Myth” “(because everyone who saw him at the 1967 Montreal World’s Fair said he was “Just unbelievable”)”. This sobriquet was given to him by bodybuilder/writer Rick Wayne. Sergio Oliva (J– November 12, 2012) was a bodybuilder known as “The Myth”.