The Superstars - 1980 Challenge of the Champions - Gym Tests

The legendary gym tests event from the 1980 "Challenge of the Champions" event of.. The Superstars!

In this special edition of the programme, previous winners of UK titles or European heats got together to decide who would be the best of the best, and several Superstars UK records were broken along the way.

The gym tests event would prove to be the stuff of legend as Brian Jacks not only smashed his own record for bar dips, but also added enough squat thrusts for a combined total of 203, an awesome achievement all round.

The bar dips here is the legendary 100 dips, which I'm sure some of you may have seen but felt it best to show the whole event.

Look how far back Keith Fielding was after day 1, and yet he still went on to win the Challenge of the Champions!

Commentary by the late great and sadly missed Ron Pickering.

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• 100
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