Anton Richter (weightlifter)

Anton Richter (born December 7, 1911 , † 1989 ) was an Austrian weightlifter . He was runner-up in the featherweight division in 1937.

Career

Anton Richter, a police officer who belonged to the Police SV Wien , became Austrian champion for the first time in 1935 and also represented his country at the European Championships in Paris . There he got 3rd place and won a medal. In the same year he also set two new world records. He scored 126 kg in featherweight in two-armed pushing, surpassing the German Helmut Schäfer by 1 kg and reaching 295 kg in the Olympic three-way fight, which was also a world record. In total, Richter was twelve times Austrian and three times German champion.

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , Anton Richter came 4th with 297.5 kg. His greatest successes on the international stage weightlifters scored Anton Richter in 1937 and 1938. In 1937, he in Paris at featherweight with 287.5 kg vice world champion and 1938 he won in Vienna with 297.5 kg, the World Cup bronze medal . In 1937 there were two international battles between Austria and Germany in Vienna and Munich . In Vienna Toni Richter achieved a feather weight of 280 kg (77.5 - 87.5 - 115) and in Munich 292.5 kg (80 - 92.5 - 120). Both times he was defeated by Georg Liebsch , who each scored 297.5 kg (92.5 - 92.5 - 112.5).

In 1939 he achieved several times over 300 kg in the Olympic three-way fight and defeated the two-time world champion of 1937 and 1938 Georg Liebsch from Düsseldorf at the German championships . He was suggesting that his prime as a weight lifter was just about to come. The pre-war period, as early as 1939, there were no more world championships and the Second World War prevented him, like so many other athletes, from achieving even greater international success. In 1941 he scored a featherweight of 302.5 kg (82.5 - 97.5 - 122.5) in a comparison of cities between Vienna and Munich.

After the Second World War, he took part in London again in 1948 in the Olympic Games. He achieved an attractive performance with 292.5 kg in the Olympic three-way fight. However, the international weightlifting scene had overtaken German and Austrian weightlifters from 1940 to 1948. So this performance was only enough for 12th place. After London he finished his international weightlifting career.

Initially a member of the SPÖ, Richter joined the KPÖ in January 1951. In December 1952 he sent a message of greeting to the third World Peace Congress, the “People's Congress for Peace” taking place in Vienna.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Fe = featherweight, up to 60 kg body weight, OD = Olympic three-way fight, consisting of two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing)

1935, 3rd place , EM in Paris , OD, Fe, with 285 kg (77.5 - 92.5 - 115), behind Max Walter , Germany , 297.5 kg a. Georg Liebsch , Germany, 295 kg;
1936, 4th place , OS in Berlin , OD, Fe, with 297.5 kg, behind Anthony Terlazzo , USA , 312.5 kg, Saleh Mohammed Soliman, Egypt , 305 kg a. Ibrahim Shams , Egypt, 300 kg, but before Georg Liebsch, 290 kg;
1937, 2nd place , World Championships in Paris , OD, Fe, with 287.5 kg (75 - 90 - 122.5), behind Georg Liebsch, 297.5 kg a. in front of Max Walter, 287.5 kg,
1938, 1st place , German NS-Kampfspiele in Nürnberg , OD, Fe, with 295 kg in front of Eugen Mühlberger , Germany, 270 kg;
1938, 3rd place , World Championships in Vienna , OD, Fe, with 297.5 kg (82.5 - 97.5 - 117.5), behind Georg Liebsch, 305 kg a. Attilio Bescape , Italy , 300 kg;
1939, 2nd place , intern. Tournament in Munich , OD, Fe, with 302.5 kg, behind Georg Liebsch, 315 kg u. in front of Attilio Bescape, 290 kg;
1948, 12th place , OS in London , OD, Fe, with 292.5 kg (80 - 92.5 - 120); Winner: Mahmoud Fayad , Egypt , 332.5 kg ahead of Rodney Wilkes , Trinidad and Tobago , 317.5 kg a. Mohamad Salmassi , Iran , 312.5 kg;

German championships

1938, 2nd place, OD, Fe, with 295 kg, behind Georg Liebsch, 307.5 kg a. before Walter Dörrbecker, Dortmund , 280 kg;
1939, 1st place, OD, Fe, with 305 kg, in front of Georg Liebsch, 300 kg a. Walter Dörrbecker, 282.5 kg;
1940, 1st place, OD, Fe, with 287.5 kg, ahead of Oswald Junkes , Trier , 262.5 kg

In addition, Anton Richter was Austrian featherweight champion in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951 and 1952.

World records

1935, 126 kg in two-armed pushing,
1935, 290 kg in the Olympic three-way fight,
1938, 100 kg in two-armed tearing,
1939, 100.5 kg in two-armed tearing,
1940, 103.5 kg in two-armed tearing,
1940, 129 kg with two-armed pushing

Note: The records set from 1938 to 1940 were broken by Soviet weightlifters. Since the Soviet Union was not a member of the international weightlifting association at the time, the achievements of the Soviet lifters were never recognized as world records.

swell

Athletics magazine , numbers 45/1935, 31/32/1936,
Kraftsport trade journal from 1937 and 1938,
Website of the Police SV Vienna,
Website "www.chidlovski.net"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME	Judge, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1911
DATE OF DEATH	1989