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Naim Süleymanoğlu, nicknamed the Pocket Hercules, is an ethnic Turk born in Bulgaria who later took Turkish citizenship. He holds 47 world records and 3 Olympic gold medals won at three different Olympic Games, and has also won 6 European championships and 7 world championships, along with many other worthy achievements, becoming the only athlete capable of lifting three times his own body weight. He was 15 years old when he set his first world record. Naim Süleymanoğlu was the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal outside Turkey. He left behind records that are impossible to beat!