Karl Hipfinger

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Karl Hipfinger (born October 28, 1905 in Vienna , † April 20, 1984 ) was an Austrian weightlifter . He was European champion in Vienna in 1929 and winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , each in the middleweight division.

Career

Karl Hipfinger, a Viennese police officer, was one of the best Austrian weightlifters from 1926 onwards. That year he became Austrian middleweight champion for the first time. He repeated this success in 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932. In 1927 he also set new world records. He scored 135 kg and 140.5 kg in middle weight in two-armed jerks. In the Olympic three-way fight he achieved 330 kg, which was also a world record in 1927. However, in 1926 and 1927 he was unable to achieve any success at international championships, because none of these were held in those years. Karl Hipfinger initially belonged to the athlete club Herkules Wien and in 1928 switched to the police SV Wien .

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , he was accordingly a favorite. But he could not finish the competition there because of an injury and remained unplaced.

In 1929 he achieved his first major success at an international championship in his hometown of Vienna . With 325 kg (90 - 102.5 - 132.5) he became the new European champion in the Olympic three-way fight, ahead of the two Germans Willi Reinfrank and Willi Hoffmann. In November 1929 Karl Hipfinger achieved 167.5 kg in Vienna with two-armed jerks after an unfree transfer (2 Tempis):

At the European Championships in Munich in 1930 he was not in good shape and with 305 kg (90 - 92.5 - 132.5) in middleweight he was only 3rd behind the Plauen Olympic champion from 1928 Kurt Helbig , who scored 332.5 kg and the 1924 Olympic champion Carlo Galimberti from Italy , who weighed 322.5 kg.

In 1932 Karl Hipfinger started at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . He was in very good shape there and achieved a personal best in the Olympic three-way fight with 337.5 kg (90-107.5-140), which was only third behind Rudolf Ismayr from Germany , 345 kg and Carlo Galimberti, 340 kg There was enough space. After all, he won a bronze medal with it.

Karl Hipfinger won another medal at the European Championship in 1934, which took place in Turin . He achieved a middleweight of 330 kg (90 - 102.5 - 137.5) and was behind Ismayr, who scored 347.5, and his compatriot Heitzmann, who came to 332.5 kg.

Karl Hipfinger did not win any medals at the 1935 European Championships in Paris . With 330 kg (90 - 102.5 - 137.5) he achieved the same result as the bronze medalist Lepreux from France , but only came 4th because of his heavier body weight.

In the Austrian qualification for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , Karl Hipfinger could not prevail against his Viennese weightlifting colleagues Hans Walla and Anton Hangel and was therefore no longer nominated.

Karl Hipfinger's special exercise was pushing with both arms. In this discipline he also set several world records. His weakness, however, was the two-armed pressure. In this exercise he was usually 15 kg behind his main competitors Rudolf Ismayr and Carlo Galimberti. Although he then regularly showed the best performance of all competitors in pushing with both arms, he was mostly unable to fully make up the gap from pushing with both arms.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, OD = Olympic three-way fight, Wed = middleweight, then up to 75 kg body weight)

  • 1928, unpl. , OS in Amsterdam , OD, Wed, retirement after injury; Winner: Roger François , France , 335 kg ahead of Carlo Galimberti , Italy , 332.5 kg a. Scheffer, The Netherlands , 327.5 kg;
  • 1929, 1st place , intern. Championship of Bohemia a . Moravia in Zlín , OD, Wed, with 317.5 kg, before Ebert, Czechoslovakia, 310 kg u. Rager, Austria, 280 kg;
  • 1929, 1st place , EM in Vienna , OD, Wed, with 325 kg (90-102.5-132.5), ahead of Willi Reinfrank , 322.5 kg a. Willi Hoffmann, both Germany , 305 kg;
  • 1930, 3rd place , EM in Munich , OD, Wed, with 305 kg (80-92.5-132.5), behind Kurt Helbig , Germany, 332.5 kg a. Carlo Galimberti, 322.5 kg;
  • 1930, 4th place , German fighting games in Breslau , OD, Wed, with 305 kg (85-95-125), behind Kurt Helbig, Plauen , 328.75 kg, Rudolf Ismayr, SC Roland Munich , 312.5 kg a. Willi Hoffmann, Magdeburg , 307.5 kg;
  • 1932, bronze medal , OS in Los Angeles , OD, Wed, with 337.5 kg (90-107.5-140), behind Rudolf Ismayr , Germany, 345 kg u. Carlo Galimberti, 340 kg a. before Roger Francois, 335 kg;
  • 1934, 3rd place , EM in Turin , OD, Wed, with 330 kg (90-102.5-137.5), behind Rudolf Ismayr, 347.5 kg a. Heitzmann, Austria, 332.5 kg u. before Carlo Galimberti, 320 kg;
  • 1935, 4th place , EM in Paris , OD, Wed, with 330 kg (90-102.5-137.5), behind Rudolf Ismayr, 360 kg, Hans Gottschalk , Germany, 332.4 kg u. Lepreux, France, 330 kg

Austrian championships

Karl Hipfinger was Austrian middleweight champion in 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932.

World records

  • 1927, Wed, pushing, 135 kg,
  • 1927, Wed, pushing, 140.5 kg,
  • 1927, Wed, pushing, 142.5 kg,
  • 1927, Wed, Olympic three-way fight, 330 kg,
  • 1928, Wed, tearing, 103 kg,
  • 1929, Wed, pushing, 145 kg

swell

  • Trade journal Athletics , numbers: 40/1929, 49/1930, 31/1932, 46/1934 and 45/1935,
  • Website "www.sport-reference.com",
  • Website "www.argos-hermann.at",
  • Website "www.chidlovski.net"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hipfinger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1984