Karl Swoboda (weightlifter)

Karl Swoboda (born July 20, 1882 in Ottakring , † April 19, 1933 in Vienna ) was an Austrian weightlifter . He won two world championship titles in 1911 .

Career

Before the First World War , Karl Swoboda, along with his fellow Viennese Wilhelm Türk , Josef Steinbach , Josef Grafl and Berthold Tandler, was one of the Austrian weightlifters who significantly determined the level in the heavyweight class in the world from 1900 to 1914. Like everyone else, he was unusually strong. Back then, weightlifting was less important to technique than to strength.

Born in Ottakring, he moved to Inzersdorf with his parents , who took over the community inn there, and worked as a butcher's journeyman.

Karl Swoboda's special exercise was pushing with both arms with unfree transfer. In this type of exercise he achieved the following eight world records from September 1, 1909 to November 4, 1911:

• 175.5 kg on September 1, 1909 in Vienna,
• 175.7 kg on November 7, 1909 in Vienna,
• 176.2 kg on December 22, 1909 in Vienna,
• 177 kg in March 1910 in Vienna,
• 180 kg in June 1910 in Vienna,
• 182.2 kg in Vienna at the end of 1910,
• 183.7 kg on May 3, 1911 in Vienna,
• 185.6 kg on November 4, 1911 in Vienna

This world record still existed in 1950.

In 1912 Karl Swoboda found 200 kg in Vienna, which he had moved with outside help.

Karl Swoboda achieved his greatest sporting success in competition in 1911 when he won two world championship titles.

In 1919 Karl Swoboda scored in a competition in Munich a . a. still a good 120 kg when pushing with both arms and 160 kg when pushing with both arms. At the World Championships in Vienna in 1920 he was no longer able to place among the top three winners and then ended his career. Like some of his other heavy athletics colleagues, he ran an inn in Vienna.

International success

(WM = world championship, S = heavyweight)

• 1909, 2nd place , World Championship in Vienna , 5-fight, S, with 533.4 kg, behind Josef Grafl , Austria , 583.1 kg and in front of Berthold Tandler , Austria, 525.4 kg;
• 1910, 2nd place , World Championship in Vienna, 7-fight, S, with 723 kg, behind Josef Grafl, 753.5 kg a. before Berthold Tandler, 685 kg;
• 1911 1st place , WM in Berlin, 4-fight, S, with 464 kg, in front of Berthold Tandler, 415 kg a. Franz Buchholz, Germany ;
• 1911, 1st place , World Championship in Vienna, 4-fight, S, with 476.5 kg, in front of Josef Grafl, 464 kg a. Berthold Tandler, 420.8 kg

swell

• Anniversary publication 100 years of weightlifting in Germany, published by the Federal Association of German Weightlifters, 1991,
• The strongest, publisher Josef Haupt, Verlag Schrömer & Freytag, Munich, 1928, page 45 u. 46,
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
• Website of the Austrian Weightlifting Association
• Ferdinand Opll : Liesing: History of the 23rd Viennese district and its old places . Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7141-6217-8 , p. 195

Web links

• Short portrait of Karl Swoboda
• Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt (digitized edition) with a photo of Karl Swoboda setting his world record