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    "url_title": "Tommy Kono",
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    "title": "Tommy Kono",
    "body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-PeopleDisplay\">\n  <table class=\"infobox\" width=\"200px;\">\n   <tbody>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Name\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Tommy Kono\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Born\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      June 27 1930\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Died\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      April 24 2016\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Birth Location\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Sacramento, California\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n    <tr>\n     <th scope=\"row\" style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      Generational Identifier\n     </th>\n     <td style=\"text-align:left;\">\n      <p>\n       <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Nisei/\" title=\"Nisei\">\n        Nisei\n       </a>\n      </p>\n     </td>\n    </tr>\n   </tbody>\n  </table>\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-People\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  <p>\n   FirstName:Tamio;\nLastName:Kono;\nDisplayName:Tommy Kono;\nBirthDate:1930-06-27;\nDeathDate:2016-04-24;\nBirthLocation:Sacramento, California;\nGender:Male;\nEthnicity:JA;\nGenerationIdentifier:Nisei;\nNationality:;\nExternalResourceLink:;\nPrimaryGeography:Honolulu, Hawaii;\nReligion:;\n  </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <p>\n  Olympic gold medal winning weightlifter and champion bodybuilder. Arguably the most acclaimed Japanese American athlete and one of the greatest Olympic style weightlifters of all time, Tommy Kono (1930– ) first began lifting weights while incarcerated as a teenager at\n  <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Tule_Lake/\" title=\"Tule Lake\">\n   Tule Lake\n  </a>\n  .\n </p>\n <p>\n  Born in Sacramento, California, his childhood was marked by severe asthma, which ironically improved in the clear air of Tule Lake. While at Tule Lake, where he remained with his parents until nearly the end of the war, he began lifting weights and came to realize an aptitude for the sport. Returning to Sacramento after the war, he began entering serious competitions and was one of the world's best by the time he as drafted into the army in 1951. Working as a cook, which allowed him time to train, he won his first national title in 1952 and won an Olympic gold medal later that year in the lightweight division. It was the first of eight consecutive world championships, won in three different weight classes, which included a second Olympic gold in 1956 and twenty-six world records. He also won four major body building titles. His world championship streak ended in the 1960 Olympics in Rome, where he settled for the silver medal.\n </p>\n <p>\n  After his retirement, he became a sought after coach, serving as Olympic team coach for three different countries. He has also been a leading spokesperson and advocate for his sport who has has also pioneered a number of important training devices and techniques. He has made Hawai'i his home since 1955.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"/Brian_Niiya/\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n  <h2>\n   <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n    For More Information\n   </span>\n  </h2>\n  <div class=\"section_content\">\n   <p>\n    Tommy Kono's website:\n    <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.tommykono.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     http://www.tommykono.com/\n    </a>\n    .\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Kono, Tommy.\n    <i>\n     Weightlifting, Olympic Style\n    </i>\n    . Honolulu: HKC, 2001.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    ———.\n    <i>\n     Championship Weightlifting\n    </i>\n    . Honolulu: HKC, 2010.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Niiya, Brian, ed.\n    <i>\n     More than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community\n    </i>\n    . Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museum, 2000.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    ---. \"Tamio 'Tommy' Kono.\" In\n    <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofja0000unse\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     <i>\n      Encyclopedia of Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present, Updated Edition\n     </i>\n    </a>\n    . Edited by Brian Niiya. New York: Checkmark Books, 2001. 249–51.\n   </p>\n   <p>\n    Svinth, Joseph R. \"Tommy Kono.\"\n    <i>\n     Physical Training\n    </i>\n    , January 2000.\n    <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://ejmas.com/pt/ptart_svinth_0100.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n     http://ejmas.com/pt/ptart_svinth_0100.htm\n    </a>\n    .\n   </p>\n   <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153523\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.012 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.016 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 122/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 1929/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 270/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n   <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00%    9.351      1 -total\n 70.93%    6.633      1 Template:Databox-People\n 14.07%    1.316      1 Template:Published\n 14.04%    1.313      1 Template:AuthorByline\n-->\n   <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:2328-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153523 and revision id 30282\n -->\n  </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n<div class=\"toplink\">\n <a href=\"#top\">\n  <i class=\"icon-chevron-up\">\n  </i>\n  Top\n </a>\n</div>",
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