Richard Tom
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican weightlifter (1920-2007)
United StatesLived 1920 to 2007 · aged 86Richard Wah Sung Tom was a Chinese American bantamweight weightlifter. He won a silver medal at the 1947 World Championships and a bronze at the 1948 Olympics. In 1952 he won his only national AAU title and later served as a weightlifting official. Tom was a World War II veteran.
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Richard Wah Sung Tom was a Chinese American bantamweight weightlifter. He won a silver medal at the 1947 World Championships and a bronze at the 1948 Olympics. In 1952 he won his only national AAU title and later served as a weightlifting official. Tom was a World War II veteran. He was born in China, but his family moved to Hawaii when he was a boy. He was the first Chinese-American to compete for the United States at the Olympics.
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