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Meet the father of modern body building, Eugen Sandow

New Delhi: Eugen Sandow is the world's first hunk.He rose to fame in the late 1890s as a weightlifter and bodybuilder.He was born 1867 in Prussia (Germany) by the name Friedrich Muller. Today he has

India TV News Desk Updated on: January 21, 2014 6:45 IST


In 1925 Eugene Sandow suffered a stroke and died at the age of fifty-eight. His legacy still lives on as a statuette known as a ‘Sandow'. It's given to the winner of the most prestigious bodybuilding competition in the world: Mr Olympia.

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