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Norb Schemansky On Mend After Neck Surgery
By Jo-ann Barnas

One of the Detroit area's unheralded Olympians went home Thursday from Providence Hospital in Southfield after undergoing neck surgery.

Norbert Schemansky of Dearborn won four medals in weightlifting in an Olympic career that spanned 16 years. He won a silver medal in the 1948 Summer Games in London; a gold in 1952 in Helsinki; a bronze in 1960 in Rome, and another bronze, in Toyko, in 1964.

Schemansky was 40 that year in Tokyo, making him the oldest weightlifter to capture an Olympic medal.

A biography of Schemansky, written by Richard Bak, is to be published in December. The title: "Mr. Weightlifting -- Norbert Schemansky: History's Greatest Olympic and World Champion Heavyweight Lifter" (Immortal Investments Publishing).

Schemansky, 82, retired a decade ago as a construction inspector for Dearborn. This week's operation was Schemansky's sixth on his spinal area, said Del Reddy, a friend of the weightlifting legend.

Those wishing to send get-well cards to Schemansky can mail them to 35122 W. Michigan Ave., Wayne 48184.