Tommy Kono Biography - Japanese-American Coach, Olympic Gold-Medalist Athlete, and Weightlifters

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Tommy Kono Biography - Japanese-American Coach, Olympic Gold-Medalist Athlete, and Weightlifters

Tamio "Tommy" Kono was the son of Japanese immigrants to the United States. In 1942 he was interned with his parents in a camp in Northern California because of the war against Japan and had to stay there until December 1945. In the camp he met friends with whom he did bodybuilding and some weightlifting. In early 1946 he returned to Sacramento with his family and attended Sacramento High School. He now trained weightlifting more consistently and started in 1948 for the first time in a competition, the Northern California AAU Weightlifting Championships. He took second place in the lightweight category with a good performance.

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