Kurt Pittner

Kurt Pittner (born March 5, 1943 in Vienna ) is an Austrian weightlifter .

Kurt Pittner
Personal information
Surname:	Kurt Pittner
Nationality:	Austria
Date of birth:	March 5, 1943
Place of birth:	Vienna
Medal table

Life

Kurt Pittner was born in Vienna on March 5, 1943. In 1957, at the age of 14, he came into contact with dumbbells for the first time through a schoolmate. He trained with the Meidlinger AK, initially sporadically, then after two years regularly. In 1960 he increased his training schedule again.

In 1962 Kurt Pittner became national champion for the first time. Then he did his military service. However, he managed to be assigned to the armed forces' sports train . The local, more intensive training enabled Pittner to finish third in the 1963 state championship. From 1964 onwards another 15 Austrian titles followed.

International career

In 1963 he was in the Danube Cup national dress for the first time. In 1965 the first participation in the European Championship followed and in 1966 the first participation in the World Cup. Nevertheless, Pittner was not yet a professional athlete at that time, he worked part-time in a gas works as a house electrician, after having successfully completed his apprenticeship as an electrical mechanic at the Kapsch company and in the meantime also working as a telecommunications fitter at the post office. He later became a broadcast technician for ORF . However, through the intervention of the later Austrian Foreign Minister Erwin Lanc, he had the opportunity to train while on duty.

At the EM in 1968 in Leningrad, he qualified for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. Nevertheless, the ÖOC initially did not want to take Pittner into the team until the then ÖGV secretary Gottfried Schödl intervened successfully. Kurt Pittner reached a 10th place in the bantamweight division in Mexico City .

At the 1971 World Cup in Lima (Peru) , Pittner was able to secure two bronze medals. In 1972 Kurt Pittner achieved fifth place in Munich, which is the best result of an Austrian weightlifter at the Olympic Games since the Second World War. A year later a World Cup bronze medal followed. Although he continued to win national titles and set some records, he could not achieve a gold medal, neither in bantamweight, nor in flyweight . Due to the general conditions at the 1976 Olympic Games , Kurt Pittner only made three unsuccessful attempts to tear. He then ended his international career. He remained undefeated nationally. In 1982 he took part in his last competition.

After the sporting career

After the end of his career, Pittner successfully completed the HTL evening school.

Kurt Pittner rarely speaks about his career, and in the few cases also mentions the people who have promoted him. He sees his success based on the fact that he trained more diligently than others, led an absolutely sporty way of life and largely subordinated his professional and private life to his sporting goals.

Kurt Pittner is married and has one son. His interests include home and garden, hiking, mountaineering and cycling.

Assignments in international main competitions

Olympics
place	year	space	Weight (kg)	To press	Tear	Bump	Two / three combat	info
Mexico city	1968	10.	(56)	97.5	100	125	322.5	-
Munich	1972	5.	(60)	125	112.5	145	382.5	-
Montreal	1976	0.	(56)	-	-	-	-	excreted with 100 kg in the tear

World Championship
year	place	space	Weight (kg)	To press	Tear	Bump	Two / three combat	info
1966	Berlin	10.	(56)	90	85	115	285	-
1969	Warsaw	8th.	(60)	115	105	140	360	-
1970	Philadelphia	0.	(60)	-	-	-	-	eliminated in the press
1971	Lima	5.	(60)	120	112.5	140	372.5	Bronze in pushing and tearing
1973	Havana	0.	(60)	-	115 *	0 **	0	* Bronze in tearing / ** eliminated in pushing
1974	Manila	0.	(60)	-	115	0 *	0	* Eliminated in the thrust
1975	Moscow	5.	(56)	-	105	127.5	232.5	-

European Championship
year	place	space	Weight (kg)	To press	Tear	Bump	Two / three combat	info
1965	Sofia	7th	(56)	87.5	87.5	110	285	-
1966	Berlin	6th	(56)	90	85	115	290	-
1968	Leningrad	6th	(56)	100	95	125	320	-
1969	Warsaw	6th	(60)	115	105	140	360	-
1970	Szombathely	7th	(60)	115	105	137.5	357.5	-
1971	Sofia	6th	(60)	122.5	112.5	145	380	-
1973	Madrid	5.	(60)	-	115	140	255	-
1974	Verona	0.	(60)	-	-	-	-	eliminated
1975	Moscow	5.	(56)	-	105	127.5	232.5	-
1976	Berlin	7th	(56)	-	105	130	235	-

Danube Cup
year	place	space	Weight (kg)	To press	Tear	Bump	Two / three combat	info
1963	Sofia	6th	(56)	75	75	100	250	-
1965	Budapest	5.	(56)	87.5	82.5	112.5	282.5	-
1966	Vienna	2.	(56)	95	90	120	305	-
1967	Pressburg	4th	(56)	95	85	115	295	-
1968	Donaueschingen	2.	(56)	97.5	95	125	317.5	-
1969	Bucharest	1.	(56)	102.5	102.5	127.5	332.5	-
1970	Sofia	0.	(60)	-	-	-	-	eliminated
1971	Split	2.	(60)	120	107.5	140	367.5	-
1972	Budapest	2.	(60)	117.5	115	140	372.5	-
1973	Havirov	2.	(60)	-	110	147.5	257.5	-
1974	Braunau	4th	(60)	-	105	130	235	-
1976	Galati	3.	(56)	-	105	130	235	-

swell

• Gerhard Peya: Weightlifting in Austria - balance of athletic endeavors. 2010.

Web links

• Kurt Pittner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Caption to the article "Pittner:" I was completely empty "" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 31, 1972, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).