Tommy Kono was born on June 27, 1930 in California and is a renowned weight lifter. He has achieved great success in his career, and his net worth, biography, age, height, and family have been well documented. He has won two Olympic gold medals and set 25 world records in his career. He is an inspiration to many aspiring weight lifters and continues to be a source of motivation for them.
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💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M
Olympic weightlifter for the U.S. team who won gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics. He competed in a total of 3 Olympics Games. In 1990, he was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame.
He spent three years of his youth at the Tule Lake Internment Camp.
He set over 20 world records during the period in which he won the World Weightlifting Championships 6 straight times. He competed in 8 World Weightlifting Championships.
He fathered three children with Florence Rodrigues, whom he married in 1962.
He won his first Olympic gold medal in the same year legendary Olympic broadcaster Bob Costas was born.
