Günter Siebert (weightlifter)

Günter Siebert 1954

Günter Siebert 1956

Günter Siebert (* 1931 ) is a former German weightlifter .

Career

Siebert joined the German People's Police (VP) in 1951 and began lifting weights there. From 1952 he was in the barracked People's Police (KVP), which in 1956 was absorbed into the National People's Army (NVA). He became a member of ASK Vorwärts Leipzig . Together with Georg Miske , he was the first weightlifter from the GDR who lived up to international standards. At two European championships he won medals and also achieved some very good placements in international competitions, where he started at the European championship in 1956 in an all-German team consisting of two lifters from the GDR (Günter Siebert and Georg Miske) and five lifters from the Federal Republic Germany existed. In addition, he achieved a number of (overall) German records in light and medium heavyweight (at that time up to 82.5 kg and 90 kg body weight). In 1959 he ended his career.

International success

(EM = European Championship, Ls = light heavyweight, Ms = middle heavyweight)

• 1955, 4th place , World Youth Festival, Ls, with 387.5 kg, behind Pegov, USSR , 415 kg, el Kerim, Egypt , 395 kg and Pšenička jun., Czechoslovakia , 390 kg;
• 1956, 3rd place , EM in Helsinki , Ls, with 377.5 kg, behind Trofim Lomakin , USSR, 420 kg and Václav Pšenička , Czechoslovakia , 400 kg;
• 1957, 3rd place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow , Ls, with 400 kg, behind Rudolf Plukfelder , USSR, 432.5 kg and Philipp Caira, Great Britain , 400 kg;
• 1957, 4th place , EM in Katowice , Ls, with 385 kg, behind Rudman, USSR, 422.5 kg, Pšenička jun., 402.5 kg and Ireneusz Paliński , Poland , 400 kg;
• 1958, 3rd place , military Spartakiade, Leipzig, Ms, 390 kg;
• 1958, 4th place ( 3rd place ), WM + EM in Stockholm , Ls, with 397.5 kg, behind Trofim Lomakin , USSR, 440 kg, James George , USA , 435 kg and Paliński, 432.5 kg

International battles

• 1954, GDR – Poland, Ls, 352.5 kg - Czeslaw Bialas , 365 kg;
• 1955, GDR - Romania , Ls, 377.5 kg - Piticaru, without result, given up due to injury;
• 1959, GDR - France , Ms, 400 kg - Lefebvre, 375 kg

German championships

(1954 all-German championship, in the remaining years GDR championship)

• 1952, 1st place, Ls;
• 1953, 1st place, Ls, with 315 kg;
• 1954, 1st place, Ms;
• 1954, 2nd place, Ls, with 352.5 kg, behind Erwin Tratz , Nuremberg , 355 kg and in front of Hans Claussen , Lübeck , 347.5 kg;
• 1955, 1st place, Ls;
• 1957, 1st place, Ls, with 380 kg;
• 1958, 1st place, Ms, 385 kg

German records

When Günter Siebert resigned in 1959, he held the following all-German records:

• Tear, Ls, with 130 kg,
• Tear, Ms, with 130 kg,
• Pushing, Ls, with 157.5 kg,
• Pushing, Ms, with 160 kg,
• oil. Triathlon, Ls, with 400 kg,
• oil. Triathlon, Ms, with 410 kg

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1954 to 1960

Web links

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