Eino Mäkinen

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Eino Matias Mäkinen (born June 13, 1926 in Kuru , † August 13, 2014 in Tampere ) was a Finnish weightlifter.

Career

Eino Mäkinen grew up in Tavastland and initially worked as a teenager and young man with athletics. After he had done his military service from 1943 to 1945, he had more time to train and achieved distances of over 15 meters in the shot put, which made him close to the Finnish top class at the time. While training for the shot put, he also learned about weightlifting, which he liked so much that he ended up sticking to it. He trained in Tammerfors , his coach was Jukke Turunen . In 1953 he broke the 400 kg limit in the Olympic three-way battle for the first time. In the same year he also took part in the World and European Championships for the first time. From then on he tirelessly competed in almost all important national and international championships, became European heavyweight champion in Munich in 1955 and won several other international medals.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, S = Heavyweight)

  • 1953, 1st place , Scandinavian Championship, S, with 395 kg, in front of Andersson, Sweden , 387.5 kg and Oesten, Denmark , 330 kg;
  • 1953, 9th place ( 5th place ), WM + EM in Stockholm , S, with 382.5 kg, winner: Doug Hepburn , Canada , 467.5 kg ahead of John Davis , USA , 457.5 kg;
  • 1954, 2nd place , Scandinavian Championship, S, with 387.5 kg, behind Lage Andersson, 397.5 kg and in front of Oesten, 320 kg;
  • 1954, 4th place , ( 2nd place ), WM + EM in Vienna , S, with 410 kg, behind Norbert Schemansky , USA, 487.5 kg, James Bradford , USA, 462.5 kg and Franz Hölbl , Austria , 425 kg;
  • 1955, 1st place , Scandinavian Championship, S, with 410 kg, ahead of Göte Wallgren, Sweden, 395 kg and Ib Doreng, Denmark, 342.5 kg;
  • 1955, 3rd place ( 1st place ), WM + EM in Munich , S, with 422.5 kg, behind Paul Anderson , USA, 512.5 kg and Bradford, 475 kg;
  • 1956, 4th place , EM in Helsinki , S, with 420 kg, behind Alexei Sidorowitsch Medwedew , USSR, 465 kg, Alberto Pigaiani , Italy , 432.5 kg and Hölbl, 430 kg;
  • 1956, 1st place , tournament in Prague , S, with 412.5 kg, ahead of Belohoubek, CSSR , 395 kg and Spitzbarth, CSSR, 395 kg;
  • 1956, 5th place , OS in Melbourne , S, with 432.5 kg, behind Anderson, 500 kg, Humberto Selvetti , Argentina , 500 kg, Pigaiani, 452.5 kg and Firouz Pojhan, Iran , 450 kg;
  • 1957, 1st place , Scandinavian Championship, S, with 450 kg, ahead of Wallgren, 392.5 kg and Jörgensen, Norway, 387.5 kg;
  • 1957, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow , S, with 447.5 kg, behind Yevgeny Novikow , USSR, 470 kg and in front of Ken MacDonald, Australia, 432.5 kg;
  • 1957, 2nd place , EM in Katowice , S, with 440 kg, behind Nowikow, 470 kg and in front of Václav Syrový, CSSR, 425 kg;
  • 1957, 4th place , World Championships in Tehran , S, with 447.5 kg, behind Medvedev, 500 kg, Selvetti, 485 kg and Pigaiani, 452.5 kg;
  • 1958, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the USSR, S, with 440 kg, behind Medvedev, 490 kg and Novikow, 455 kg;
  • 1958, 6th place ( 4th place ), WM + EM in Stockholm, S, with 430 kg, behind Medvedev, 485 kg, Dave Ashman , USA, 457.5 kg;
  • 1959, 4th place ( 3rd place ), WM + EM in Warsaw , S, with 447.5 kg, behind Yuri Vlasow , USSR, 500 kg, Bradford, 492.5 kg and Ivan Vesselinow , Bulgaria , 455 kg;
  • 1960, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow, S, with 447.5 kg, behind Medvedev, 480 kg and Vesselinow, 455 kg;
  • 1960, 4th place , EM in Milan , S, with 435 kg, behind Vlasow, 500 kg, Vesselinow, 460 kg and Pigaiani, 445 kg;
  • 1960, 5th place , OS in Rome , S, with 455 kg, behind Vlasow, 537.5 kg, Bradford, 512.5 kg, Schemansky, 500 kg and Ibrahim, Egypt , 455 kg;
  • 1961, 1st place , Scandinavian Masters, S, with 455 kg, ahead of Lanes, Norway, 395 kg and Cannerström, Sweden, 392.5 kg;
  • 1961, 3rd place ( 2nd place ), WM + EM in Vienna, S, with 455 kg, behind Wlassow, 525 kg and Ronald Zirk , USA, 475 kg;
  • 1962, 4th place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow, S, with 447.5 kg, behind Leonid Schabotinski , USSR, 490 kg, Ibrahim, 457.5 kg and Károly Ecser , Hungary , 457.5 kg;
  • 1962, 1st place , Scandinavian Masters, S, with 435 kg, ahead of Borrman, Sweden, 400 kg and Röstad, Norway, 362.5 kg;
  • 1962, 8th place ( 5th place ), WM + EM in Budapest , S, with 462.5 kg, winner: Vlasov, 540 kg ahead of Schemansky, 537.5 kg;
  • 1963, 8th place ( 5th place ), WM + EM in Stockholm , S, with 457.5 kg, winner: Vlasow, 557.5 kg ahead of Schemansky, 537.5 kg

Finnish championship

Eino Mäkinen won the Finnish heavyweight championship eight times.

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personal data
SURNAME Mäkinen, Eino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mäkinen, Eino Matias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuru (Finland)
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2014
Place of death Tampere