1. Peter T George was an American weightlifter and Olympic and World champion.
10 Facts About Pete George
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Pete George's father was an activist of the Macedonian Patriotic Organization and both his parents were members of the Macedono-Bulgarian St Elia the Prophet Orthodox Church.
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Pete George won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.
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Pete George received silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, and at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
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Pete George won five World Championships outside of the Olympics in 1947,1951,1953,1954, and 1955.
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Pete George placed second at the World Championships in 1949 and 1950, making a total of ten medals in World and Olympic competition.
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Pete George set four world records, three in the clean and jerk, and one in the total.
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Pete George became an orthodontist and served on the faculty of the University of Hawaii.
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Pete George held the patent for the Nocturnal Airway Patency Appliance, a device preventing the stoppage of breathing during sleep.
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Pete George is described sometimes as a Macedonian American, and thus in 1993 George was awarded the Macedonian Hall of Fame Award by the Macedonian Businessmen's Club in Akron, Ohio.