Joe Puleo (born 1942) was an

Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ...

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

for the United States.

About

Joseph "Joe" Robert Puleo was born in

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

. He was an attorney, but is now retired and living in Fort Myers, Florida.. He competed in his weightlifting competitions as a middleweight, light-heavyweight, and middle-heavyweight.

Organizations

Puleo was a member of the York Barbell Club, York.

Weightlifting achievements

*Olympic team member (1968 and 1980) *Senior National Champion (1962, 1964, 1966, 1967, and 1968) *1st in the Pan American Games Middleweight class (1963) *1st in the Pan American Games Light-heavyweight class (1967)

References

External links

Joe Puleo - Hall of Fame at Weightlifting Exchange
1942 births Living people American male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for the United States Weightlifters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Detroit Weightlifters at the 1963 Pan American Games Weightlifters at the 1967 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in weightlifting 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-weightlifting-bio-stub, Puleo, Joe