Bill March
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| Born | 4 February 1937 | ||||||||||||
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 United States | ||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||
| Weight class | 90 kg | ||||||||||||
| Club | York Barbell club | ||||||||||||
| Team | National team | ||||||||||||
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Bill March (born 4 February 1937) is an American male former weightlifter, who competed in the middle heavyweight class and represented United States at international competitions. He won the bronze medal at the 1962 World Weightlifting Championships in the 90 kg category.[1]
The American physician John Bosley Ziegler who originally developed the anabolic steroid Methandrostenolone (Dianabol, DBOL).[2][3] pioneered its athletic use as an aid to muscle growth by bodybuilders, administering it to Bill March in 1959 when he was the physician to the U.S. Weightlifting team.[4] It was banned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Controlled Substances Act.
References
- ↑ "Weightlifting World Championships Seniors Statistics - 2007 World Championships - Bill March" (PDF). iwf.net. p. 126-146. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ↑ NIDA Research Monograph 1990, Number 102, p97
- ↑ John D. Fair, "Isometrics or Steroids? Exploring New Frontiers Of Strength in the Early 1960s, Journal of Sport History, Vol. 20. No. 1 (Spring 1993)
- ↑ "Heartland - Pennsylvania firsts - First use of anabolic steroids in sports". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2008-08-14.
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