Heinrich Schneidereit

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Heinrich Schneidereit
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Tug of war , weight lifting

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Olympic Summer Games
gold 1906 Athens Tug of war
bronze 1906 Athens Weightlifting with one hand
bronze 1906 Athens Weightlifting with both hands

Heinrich Schneidereit (born December 23, 1884 in Cologne , † September 30, 1915 in Diedenhofen , today Thionville, France ) was a German weightlifter . At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906, he competed in both one-handed and two-handed weightlifting and won the bronze medal. With the team, he won the gold medal in a tug of war .

Life

Heinrich Schneidereit began weightlifting in 1900 at the Cologne Athletes Club in 1882 , after having already participated in various other sports as a student. He made such rapid progress in weightlifting that he took part in the World Championships in Paris when he was just 19 years old . In those years it was extraordinary that such a young weightlifter could perform like this. He was therefore nicknamed "The German Wonderboy".

Career

First competitions

Tailoring in 1902

At the World Championships in Paris, where there was only one weight class, Heinrich Schneidereit scored 513.5 kg in a 6 fight. He was clearly ahead of the next best lifter, Francois Lancaud from Switzerland , who achieved 507.5 kg. The jury decided, however, that Lancaud had become world champion because Schneidereit had not freely converted the weight when pushing with both arms , as prescribed and had to accept deductions. At the German championship in Mannheim in 1906 , Schneidereit scored 525 kg in the 5-fight and was placed there in 2nd place behind Georg Schleidt from Darmstadt , who also scored 525 kg.

Olympia 1906

In 1906 the so-called Olympic Intermediate Games were held in Athens to commemorate the re-establishment of the modern Olympic Games in 1896. Schneidereit won the bronze medal with one-armed lifting with 73.75 kg and with two-armed lifting with 129.5 kg . In Athens, Schneidereit took part in the tug of war with the German team that was only put together there. The German team managed to defeat the favored Greeks and win the gold medal. Schneidereit did not contest further tug-of-war competitions.

Heinrich Schneidereit also achieved the greatest success of his career in 1906 when he became world champion in the 4-fight in Lille . He achieved 105 kg in pushing and 125 kg in pushing. Towards the end of 1906 he became European weightlifting champion in Milan . Here he achieved 112.5 kg in pushing and 150 kg in pushing.

Last competitions

In 1907, Schneidereit was second winner at the world championships in Frankfurt / Main behind Heinrich Rondi from Düsseldorf and ahead of Georg Schleidt. Individual performances from this championship are not known. In 1908 he achieved a new world record in one-armed snatching in Frankfurt / Main with 90.8 kg. In 1911, Schneidereit took third place in the heavyweight division in Stuttgart in the 4-fight behind the Austrian Josef Grafl and Rondi, who won 471.5 kg, and in 1912 he was in the heavyweight division in Frankfurt / Main in the 5-fight with 542.5 kg behind Rondi, who achieved 547.5 kg, again German runner-up.

In 1912, Schneidereit achieved 85 kg in one-armed snatch and 155 kg in two-armed jerks at the Gaues Rheinland Gaues festival in Cologne in a fight with the new weightlifting star Karl Mörke . Mörke achieved 100 kg in one-armed pushing and 150 kg in two-armed pushing. The last success of his career achieved Schneidereit 1914 at the Baltic Games in Malmö , where he won the heavyweight division. In other Olympic Games, Schneidereit could not take part, because no weightlifting competitions were held at the Games in London in 1908 and in Stockholm in 1912.

From 1914 on, Schneidereit took part in the First World War. He died on September 30, 1915 after being seriously wounded in the hospital in Diedenhofen in Lorraine .

successes

International success

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

  • 1903, 2nd place , World Championship in Paris , 6-fight, with 513.5 kg, behind Francois Lancaud, Switzerland , 507.5 kg and in front of Gustave Empain, Belgium (Note: Schneidereit received deductions because he did not push with both arms had freely implemented);
  • 1906, bronze medal , OS in Athens , one-armed lifting with 73.75 kg, behind Josef Steinbach , Austria , 76.55 kg u. Tullio Camillotti, Italy , 73.75 kg;
  • 1906, bronze medal , OS in Athens, lifting with both arms with 129.5 kg, behind Dimitrios Tofalos , Greece , 142.5 kg u. Josef Steinbach, 136.5 kg;
  • 1906, 1st place , World Championships in Lille , 5-fight, before Emil Besson, Switzerland a. Gustave Fallur, France ;
  • 1906, 1st place , EM in Milan , 5-fight (including 112.5 kg torn and 150 kg kicked);
  • 1907, 2nd place , World Cup in Frankfurt / Main , S, behind Heinrich Rondi , Germany a . before Georg Schleidt, Germany;
  • 1911, 3rd place , World Championship in Stuttgart , S, 4 fight, behind Josef Grafl , Austria, 471.5 kg u. Heinrich Rondi;
  • 1914, 1st place , Baltic Games in Malmö , S;

German championships

swell

  • Anniversary publication 100 years of weightlifting in Germany , published by the Federal Association of German Weightlifters, 1991,
  • Athletics magazine , number 9/1967, page 28,
  • Trials of strength, Strong men then and now , Sportverlag Berlin 1985, page 236,

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Excerpt from the German lists of losses (Preuss. 120) of October 30, 1915, p. 9753
personal data
SURNAME Tailoring, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1915
Place of death Diedenhofen