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Weight Lifting

Event		Weight
One-arm Lifts	Launceston Elliott, GBR	156¹/4
	Viggo Jensen, DEN	125³/4
	Alexandros Nikolopulos, GRE	125³/4
Two-arm Lifts	Viggo Jensen, DEN	245¹/4
	Launceston Elliott, GBR	245¹/4
	Sotirios Versis, GRE	220

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