Cammie Lusko

Cammie Lusko was an American athlete, born on 5 April 1958 in Los Angeles and died on 22 November 2024, who is best known for her part in the growth of female bodybuilding in the 1980s. She entered her first bodybuilding contest in 1979, finishing third in the Robby Robinson Classic in her home city, and the next year placed ninth in the inaugural Ms. Olympia. She then turned to Olympic style lifting and in 1983 became the first woman to lift more than her body weight overhead with one arm, 131 pounds. That year she placed second in the 60 kilogram class of the women's national Olympic weightlifting competition. At guest posing shows she performed a strongwoman act, pressing men who weighed nearly 200 pounds overhead.