Günther Schliwka

Günther Schliwka (born May 9, 1956 in Wolmirstedt , GDR ) is a former German weightlifter .

Career

Günther Schliwka, who comes from Samswegen , started lifting weights as a child. As a teenager he learned the trade of a car mechanic, but joined the National People's Army at the age of 17 and became a member of the ASK Vorwärts Frankfurt (Oder) .

In 1973 Günther Schliwka took part in the GDR youth championship of weightlifting in the athletic all-round competition, athletics was operated as a complementary sport to weightlifting, second place and in 1974 he was GDR youth champion in middleweight with 227.5 kg in a duel. With the same performance he reached the 4th place in the GDR championship of the seniors in 1974 in the lightweight and increased at the end of 1974 in the association cup tournament of the weightlifting association of the GDR to 240 kg in a duel.

In 1975 he was used at the Baltic Cup and achieved a lightweight 265 kg, with which he took 3rd place. At the Junior World Championships in 1975 in Marseille, he increased the lightweight to 275 kg (120-155) and came in 6th place. Already in 1976, meanwhile grown into the middleweight division, Günter Schliwka already exceeded the 300 kg mark in a duel. At the Grand Prix of Berlin he scored 302.5 kg and was third behind Wartan Militosjan , 337.5 kg a. V. Michailow, 325 kg, both from the Soviet Union. At the Oder Cup tournament in 1976 in Frankfurt (Oder) he achieved 305 kg and took 2nd place behind Smirnow, USSR, 320 kg.

In 1977 Günther Schliwka was used at the World and European Championships in Stuttgart and scored 330 kg in the middleweight division (140-190). With this performance he won the bronze medal in a duel. With his performance of 190 kg in pushing, he became Vice World Champion and Vice European Champion.

In 1978 Günther Schliwka was not in the best shape at the European Championships in Havířov and only achieved 317.5 kg (137.5-180) in a duel, with which he finished 5th. At the world championship of the same year in Gettysburg / USA he increased himself to the excellent duel performance of 332.5 kg (145-187.5), but this performance was only enough for 4th place. Even in the individual disciplines of snatching and pushing, he remained in Gettysburg without a medal.

In 1979 he finished at the Championships of the Armies of the Warsaw Pact (SKDA Championship) in Lvov in the middleweight with 325 kg (140-185) behind the Bulgarian Tassimow, 330 kg, the 2nd place. At the World and European Championships he was not used. In 1980 Günther Schliwka managed to qualify for participation in the Olympic Games in Moscow . There he managed 150 kg in the snatch, with which he was promising 4th place in this discipline. In pushing, however, he did not manage his initial weight of 187.5 kg three times, so that he had to retire without placing.

After this competition he stopped weightlifting as a competitive sport, in which he never succeeded in becoming GDR champion in a duel, although he was only 24 years old.

After 1990, as a sports director and trainer, he helped make SSV Samswegen one of the most powerful German weightlifting teams.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1975	3.	Baltic Cup	Light	with 265 kg, behind Jan Lostowski, Poland , 280 kg a. Dergachev, USSR , 277.5 kg
1975	6th	Junior World Championships in Marseille	Light	at 275 kg (120-155); Winner: Taskow, Bulgaria , 287.5 kg
1976	3.	Grand Prix of Berlin	medium	with 302.5 kg, behind Wartan Militosjan , USSR, 337.5 kg a. Mikhailov, USSR, 325 kg
1976	2.	Oder Cup tournament in Frankfurt (Oder)	medium	with 305 kg, behind Smirnow, USSR, 320 kg
1976	2.	Baltic Cup in Lahti / Finland	medium	with 322.5 kg (140-182.5), behind Peter Wenzel, GDR, 330 kg (145-185)
1977	1.	Baltic Cup in Stralsund	medium	with 322.5 kg (140-182.5), before Wolfgang Huebner, GDR , 320 kg a. Meder, Poland, 297.5 kg
1977	3.	WM + EM (3rd) in Stuttgart	medium	with 330 kg (140-190), behind Jurik Wardanjan , USSR, 345 kg (152.5-192.5) and Peter Wenzel , GDR, 337.5 kg (150–187.5)
1978	1.	Blue Swords Cup in Meissen	Slightly difficult	with 325 kg (140-185), before Hinkler, GDR, 300 kg
1978	5.	EM in Havířov	medium	at 317.5 kg (137.5-180); Winner: Wartan Militosjan, 342.5 kg (147.5–190) ahead of Zamari Todorow, Bulgaria, 330 kg (145–185)
1978	1.	Baltic Cup in Wolfsburg	Slightly difficult	with 325 kg (142.5-182.5), ahead of Jonsson, Sweden , 302.5 kg
1978	4th	World Cup in Gettysburg / USA	medium	with 332.5 kg (145-187.5), behind Roberto Urrutia , Cuba , 347.5 kg (155-192.5), Wartan Militosjan, 337.5 kg (147.5-190) u. Peter Wenzel, 335 kg (145–190)
1978	2.	Army Championship (SKDA-Meistersch.) In Frankfurt (Oder)	medium	with 325 kg (140-185), behind Denissow, USSR, 340 kg (150-190), in front of Echenique, Cuba, 325 kg (142.5-182.5)
1979	1.	Blue Swords Cup in Meissen	medium	with 325 kg (140–185), before Wolfgang Hübner, 325 kg (145–180)
1979	2.	SKDA master class in Lvov	medium	with 325 kg (140-185), behind Tassimow, Bulgaria, 330 kg
1980	1.	Blue Swords Cup in Meissen	medium	with 335 kg, in front of Pakizehjan, Iran , 332.5 kg a. Günter Ambraß , GDR, 317.5 kg
1980	unpl.	OS in Moscow	medium	after 150 kg in snatch, three failed attempts in pushing with 187.5 kg; Winner: Assen Slatew , Bulgaria, 360 kg (160–200) ahead of Alexander Perwi , USSR, 357.5 kg (157.5–200)

WM + EM individual medals

• World Cup silver medal: 1977 / pushing
• EM silver medal: 1977 / pushing

Explanations

• all competitions in single combat, consisting of snatching and pushing,
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship,
• Lightweight, then up to 67.5 kg, middle weight up to 75 kg and the like. Lightweight up to 82.5 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journals Athletics , Karlsruhe and Heavy Athletics , Berlin (East),
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Günther Schliwka in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )