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Sandwina, Katie

LC control no.n 2023015257
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Personal name headingSandwina, Katie
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Variant(s)Brumbach, Katharine, 1884-
Birth date18840506
Found inKatie, big and strong, [2024]: ECip galley (Katie Sandwina was born Katharine Brumbach on May 6, 1884, in a circus wagon in Austria. In the early 1900s, Katie took the stage name "Katie Sandwina," naming herself after Eugen Sandow, a famous bodybuilder hailed as the strongest man in the world. In 1911 she achieved the heaviest overhead lift ever performed by a woman - 286 pounds, a world record that wouldn't be broken until 1987)