Taken from the WABDL website:
Tommy Kono died April 24, 2016 at age 83.
Tommy Kono was my inspiration to get involved in Powerlifting and to stay involved.
I started training in 1968 because of Kono. I had never met him, but I had heard of him. I then trained with Dave Johns, MR America, 1977, at the Mid Valley YMCA in Van Nuys, California from 1971-72’. Arnold Schwarzenegger trained there in the late sixties before he went to Joe Golds Gym in Venice, California.


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