Paul Anderson (Weightlifter) Net Worth, Bio, Wiki, Married, Wife, Age & Height

Are you Powerlifting enthusiastic? If you’re one of them, then you are stumbled upon a correct article. In today’s topic, we will present to you an American weightlifter, strongman, and powerlifter, Paul Anderson. Anderson was an Olympic gold medalist and a World Champion and two time National Champion in Olympic weightlifting.

Moreover, Anderson played a major role in the powerlifting demonstration as a competitive sport. Paul was happily married to his beloved wife, Glenda Garland. To know more about Paul Anderson including his children, wife, net worth and salary, death, then read the article till the end.

Who is Paul Anderson? His Bio, Wiki

Paul Anderson was born on October 17, 1932, in Toccoa, Georgia, United States. Anderson holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. He is the only son of his father, Toccoa Anderson and mother, Ethel Bennett Anderson.

As a teenager, in the backyard of his family, Paul started his early weight training on his own to increase his size and strength so that he could play on the football team at Toccoa High School, where he won a position as a first-team blocking back. Anderson later attended a football scholarship at Furman University for a year before moving with his parents to Elizabethton, Tennessee.

Paul Anderson’s Professional Career

In 1955, as the winner of the U.S. National Amateur Athletic Union Weightlifting Championship, at the height of the Cold War, Anderson traveled to the Soviet Union, where weightlifting was a popular sport, for an international competition for weightlifting.

Watch Paul Anderson lifting 825 pounds.

During the year of 1955, World Championships in Munich, Germany someday in October, Anderson continued to set two other world records (for the press – 407.7 lb or 184.9 kg – and total weight cleared – 1,129.5 lb or 512.3 kg) as he easily won the weight class competition to become world champion. Anderson won a gold medal as a super-heavyweight lifter in a long, tough duel in the Melbourne, Australia Olympic Games.

How much is Paul Anderson’s Salary and Net Worth?

The American weightlifter, Paul Anderson had amassed an impressive amount throughout his victorious career. However, the exact figures of his net worth and salary are still under review as of 2019.

Besides, U.S. track athletes reported that half of the athletes in the top 10 of their U.S. event earns less than $15,000 annually as all sources of income. Apart, a gold medal, an athlete weightlifter earns a $25,000 bonus from the U.S. Olympic Committee. Similarly, silver pays $15,000 for all U.S. athletes with a bronze worth $10,000. Along with net worth and salary, Anderson hasn’t revealed the details about his house and cars.

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Paul Anderson’s Personal Life (Married, Wife, Children)

Paul Anderson was a married man. Well, Paul was married to his long term girlfriend turned wife, Glenda Garland. The couple exchanged their wedding vows in 1960. Both the duo were devout Christians. Paul and Garland spent a blissful life as a husband and wife lived together for more than a decade.

The duo also shared a daughter, Paula who was born in 1966. Anderson kept all of his personal details far from the media. Due to his low-key life, his past affairs and relationships are also unknown.

Later, Paul Anderson died at the age of  61 from a kidney disorder. As a child, Anderson suffered from the disease of Bright (now called chronic nephritis), a kidney disorder, and he eventually died from kidney disease.

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Paul Anderson’s Body Measurement (Height)

Being a weightlifter, Paul Anderson had an athletic body. He weighed between 275–370 lb (125–168 kg) while competing and used to stand at a height of 5 feet 9.5 inches (1.765 m).