Robert Hoffman, Founder of Barbell Firm, Dies at 86
From Times Wire Services
YORK, Pa. — Robert C. Hoffman, founder of York Barbell Corp., the nation’s leading maker of Olympic-style weightlifting equipment, died Thursday at York Hospital.
He was 86.
Hoffman coached U.S. Olympic weightlifting teams from 1948 to 1956.
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