DAVE PROWSE, M.B.E.

A CAREER MOST EXTRAORDINARY

Registered as a crippled child at the age of 14 with suspected TB of the knee.

Mr. Universe contender 1960 weighing 250 lbs at 6'7".

British Heavyweight Weightlifting Champion 1962, 1963 and 1964.

Competed in Worlds Weightlifting Championships Budapest 1962.  Empire and Commonwealth Games representative Perth, Australia 1962.

Scottish Highland Games champion.  Was the first person ever to lift the Dinnie Stones weighing 784 lbs.

European Sales Manager and Magazine Editor for the Weider organization.

Opened the first ever gymnasium at the National Sports Center, Crystal Palace, London 1965.

Got THE UK 'Bullworking' (The world's biggest selling physical training aid). 

Introduced Tonka Toys to the UK appearing in a series of TV commercials.

David has most recently had published two volumes of his life and times entitled STRAIGHT FROM THE FORCES MOUTH highly recommended".
 

 

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