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John Carroll Grimek (June 17 1910 – November 20 1998) was a bodybuilder and weightlifter active in the 1930s and 1940s.Grimek was born in Perth Amboy New Jersey the son of Slovak immigrants George and Maria Grimek peasants from the village Ústie nad Oravou in western Slovakia.Besides his bodybuilding exploits for which he was never defeated Grimek also represented the United States in weightlifting at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.In 1948 at 38 years of age Grimek defeated Steve Reeves at the NABBA Mr.