Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2013 10:10:46 GMT -5
From Gus Rethwisch, WABDL President: Jon Cole died of lung failure in January at age 71. Without Jon Cole from Arizona, George Frenn from Los Angeles, John Kuc and Jim Williams from Pennsylvania, there would be no powerlifting. Cole made the 1968 Olympic team as a discus thrower. He was 510, and weighed 255 to 283 pounds and could throw a discus 222 feet. All of his lifts were raw bench 580, squat 903, and dead lift 882 at 283#. At 242, he dead lifted 826, squatted 804, and benched 534. Jon Cole had a standing $10,000 bet he could beat anybody in arm wrestling; he never lost his bet. I saw him at his gym do the universal wrist roll at the top resistance of 15; his forearms were a blur. He could run the hundred-yard dash in 9.9 and could throw a baseball 400 feet. He cleaned and jerked 468 in the gym and 446 in a meet; snatched 385 in the gym and 370 in competition. He was King Jon Cole. Long live the king in Heaven.