Dawid Adamowitsch Rigert

Dawid Rigert
Personal information
Surname:	Dawid Adamowitsch Rigert
Nationality:	USSR
Date of birth:	March 12, 1947
Place of birth:	Nagornoje
Size:	171 cm
Medal table

Dawid Adamowitsch Rigert ( Russian Давид Адамович Ригерт ; born March 12, 1947 , Nagornoje village , Koktschetav Oblast , Kazakh SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet weightlifter and current Russian national trainer .

Short biography

Rigert was born as the son of the Russian Germans Adam Adamowitsch Rigert and Jelisaweta Rudolfowna Horn. His grandfather Adam Rigert was a servant at the estate of the Tsarist officer Baron Rudolf Horn. Horn's daughter Lisbeth married Adam Rigert's son Adam.

Dawid Rigert grew up with five older and three younger siblings in the Kuban area . When the war with the German Reich broke out, his father and other Germans from Russia were brought to the Urals for forced labor . His mother was deported to northern Kazakhstan, where two of her children died.

After graduating from school in 1966, Rigert did his military service until 1968, after which he worked as a miner. In 1970 he was accepted as a weightlifter in the national team of the Soviet Union, where he was until 1981. During the Olympics in the Soviet era, Dawid Rigert gave an interview in German with his family. After his active career, he became the national team coach, and since 1995 he has been working at the Taganrog Olympic Reserve School. He has been the head coach of the Russian national team since 2003 and a member of the Taganrog City Council since 2004 .

In 1988 Dawid Rigert is mentioned in a book "Jews and the Olympic Games".

Career

Rigert came into contact with weightlifting during his military service and at the age of 19 he started lifting competitions. On October 12, 1968 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg ) he met the performance standard for the master of sports of the USSR . Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the national team of the Soviet Union .

He played his first world championship in 1970 in Columbus , where he took third place in the light heavyweight up to 82.5 kg with 482.5 kg in the three-way battle. A year later Rigert switched to the middle-heavyweight up to 90 kg and achieved first place with 542.5 kg in the three-way fight, ahead of his compatriot Wassili Kolotow .

In 1972 he entered the Olympic Games in Munich as the reigning European champion . He was able to set an Olympic record in pushing with 187.5 kg, but failed three times due to his entry load in the tear of 160 kg, although he was the world record holder at that time with 167.5 kg.

In 1973, 1974 and 1975 Rigert won the world title in a duel after pushing was abolished after 1972.

In 1976 at the Olympic Games in Montreal Rigert won Olympic gold with a duel load of 382.5 kg, three Olympic records, and a gap of 20 kg on the runner-up.

From 1978 to 1980 Rigert briefly competed in the 1st heavyweight up to 100 kg and took first place at the 1978 World Cup with 390 kg. His lower body weight placed him in front of Sergei Arakelow, who also lifted 390 kg, but was almost 5 kg heavier.

At his third Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980 , the Munich scenario was repeated. Rigert, who in the meantime had switched back to middle heavyweight, could not cope with his initial load of 170 kg in the snatch and was eliminated, just like Vasily Alexejew later, unplaced.

statistics

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = light heavyweight, Ms = middle heavyweight, 1st page = 1st heavyweight, competitions up to 1972 in three-way combat, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 in single combat, consisting of tearing and pushing)

• 1970, 2nd place , tournament in Zaporizhia , Ms, with 515 kg, behind Alexander Kidjajew , Soviet Union, 527.5 kg, and in front of Khoroschajew, 505 kg;
• 1970, 3rd place , World Championships in Columbus / USA , Ls, with 482.5 kg, behind Gennadi Ivanchenko , Soviet Union, 505 kg and Norbert Ozimek , Poland , 482.5 kg;
• 1971, 1st place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Rostov , Ms, with 542 kg, ahead of Kidjajew 507.5 kg, Nagy, Hungary, 497.5 kg;
• 1971, 1st place , EM in Sofia , Ms, with 537.5 kg, ahead of Bo Johansson , Sweden , 537.5 kg and Atanas Schopow , Bulgaria , 512.5 kg;
• 1971, 1st place , WM in Lima , Ms, with 545 kg, ahead of Wassili Kolotow , Soviet Union, 537.5 kg and Bo Johansson , 520 kg;
• 1972, 1st place , EM in Constanța , Ms, with 557.5 kg, ahead of Atanas Schopow , 527.5 kg and Andon Nikolow , Bulgaria, 525 kg;
• 1972, unplaced , OS + WM in Munich , Ms, after 3 failed attempts in the tear;
• 1973, 1st place , Grand Prix of the Soviet Union in Tashkent , Ls, with 377.5 kg, ahead of Kaarlo Kangasniemi , 347.5 kg, and Radtke, 340 kg;
• 1973, 1st place , EM in Madrid , Ms, with 367.5 kg, ahead of Nikolow, 352.5 kg and Shopow, 350 kg;
• 1973, 1st place , World Cup in Havana , Ms, with 365 kg, ahead of Wassili Kolotow , 360 kg and Peter Petzold , GDR , 357.5 kg;
• 1974, 1st place , EM in Verona , Ms, with 385 kg, ahead of Nikolow, 385 kg and Sergei Poltorazki , Soviet Union, 362.5 kg;
• 1974, 1st place , World Championships in Manila , Ms, with 387.5 kg, ahead of Poltorazki, 367.5 kg;
• 1975, 1st place , WM + EM in Moscow , Ms, with 377.5 kg, ahead of Poltorazki, 372.5 kg and Petzold, 362.5 kg;
• 1976, 1st place , EM in East Berlin , Ms, with 397.5 kg, ahead of Adam Saidulajew, Soviet Union, 360 kg and Petzold, 350 kg;
• 1976, gold medal , OS + WM in Montreal , Ms, with 382.5 kg, ahead of Lee James , USA, 362.5 kg and Shopow, 360 kg;
• 1978, 1st place , EM in Havířov , Ms, with 397.5 kg, ahead of Rolf Milser , Germany , 375 kg and Nikolow, 352.5 kg;
• 1978, 1st place , World Cup in Gettysburg , 1st side , with 390 kg, ahead of Arakelow, Soviet Union, 390 kg and Funke, GDR, 367.5 kg;
• 1979, 1st place , EM in Verona , 1st side , with 402.5 kg, ahead of Pawel Syrtschin, Soviet Union, 392.5 kg and Asparuchow, Bulgaria, 375 kg;
• 1980, unplaced , OS + WM in Moscow , after 3 failed attempts in the tear.

USSR championships

• 1970, 2nd place, Ls, with 495 kg, behind Gennady Ivanchenko , 500 kg and in front of Boris Selizki , 482.5 kg;
• 1971, 2nd place, Ms, with 535 kg, behind Vasili Kolotow , 537.5 kg and in front of Sergei Poltorazki , 520 kg;
• 1972, 1st place, Ms, with 555 kg, ahead of Alexander Kidjajew , 537.5 kg and Stanislaw Terechow, 522.5 kg;
• 1973, 1st place, Ms, with 375 kg, ahead of Kolotow, 365 kg and Poltorazki, 352.5 kg;
• 1975, 1st place, Ms, with 382.5 kg, ahead of Poltorazki, 375 kg and Yuri Beljajew, 365 kg;
• 1976, 1st place, Ms, with 400 kg, ahead of Poltorazki, 392.5 kg and Adam Saidulajew , 380 kg;
• 1978, 1st place, Ms, with 380 kg, ahead of Saidulajew, 380 kg and Poltorazki, 375 kg.

Others

• Rigert set 68 world records during his career and is thus on a par with Vasily Alexejew , who set 80 world records.
• Rigert was active in both short-distance running and boxing. He completed seven fights in the boxing ring, in all of which he was knocked out in the first round. The talented boxer was beaten so much with a shovel by the friends of the downcast rivals that it broke apart. Dawid gave up boxing and his dream of entering military school.
• In the cinema Rigert saw a dumbbell that he made with simple means. In the military, he began to train with more professional equipment.

Personal best

• Pressing: 198.0 kg in the class up to 90 kg 1972 in Riga .
• Tear: 185 kg in the class up to 100 kg in 1981 in Lviv .
• Bump: 230.0 kg in the class up to 100 kg in 1980 in Moscow .
• Duel: 407.5 kg in the class up to 100 kg in Moscow in 1981 .
• Triathlon: 562.5 kg in the class up to 90 kg in 1971 in Riga .

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Rigert, Jews and the Olympic Games

Web links

• Portrait on chidlovski.net
• Dawid Adamowitsch Rigert at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Dawid Adamowitsch Rigert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )