Leopold Friedrich (weightlifter)

Leopold Friedrich (* 1898 ; † 1962 ) was an Austrian weightlifter . He won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris .

Career

Leopold Friedrich's career as a weightlifter began after the end of the First World War at Leopoldstädter AK (Athletes Club) Vienna . Later he switched to the wage-wage contractor AK Vienna .

In 1922 he was the first Austrian middleweight champion . In a four-way battle, he relegated Karl Freiberger from Währinger AK Wien , who weighed 378.5 kg, to second place with 380.5 kg . In 1923 he played the world championships in Vienna. Again in a four-way fight he achieved 375 kg in the middleweight division and with this performance he was runner-up behind Karl Freiberger, who reached 387.58 kg. In the same year he was again Austrian champion, starting in the light heavyweight division for the first time, reaching 407 kg in four-way combat and relegating Rudolf Straßer from AK Cherusker Vienna to 2nd place.

In 1924 Leopold Friedrich had to face his old competitor Karl Freiberger, who scored 505 kg and 487.5 kg, both at the Vienna Championship, where he scored 499.5 kg in the light heavyweight pentathlon, and at the Olympic qualification in Vienna with 475 kg kg scored, give beaten. At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, Leopold Friedrich weighed 490 kg in a pentathlon. With this performance he came in 3rd place behind the outstanding Frenchman Charles Rigoulot , who scored 502.5 kg and Fritz Hünenberger from Switzerland , who like him lifted 490 kg, but was a little lighter than him, and thus won the bronze medal. Karl Freiberger came in this competition with 487.5 kg on the thankless 4th place.

In 1925 Leopold Friedrich was again Austrian champion in the semi-heavyweight competition. With 405 kg he relegated Viktor Biancho from AK Herkules Wien to 2nd place in a four-way fight .

After that, Leopold Friedrich no longer appears in any winners list.

successes

year	space	competition	Competition type	Weight class	Results
1922	1.	Austrian championship	VK	medium	with 380.5 kg (70-85-85-120), in front of Karl Freiberger , Währinger AK Vienna, 378.5 kg (72.5-85-87.5-125) and Sebastian Haberl, Währinger AK Vienna, 373, 5 kg
1923	2.	World Cup in Vienna	VK	medium	with 375 kg (75-95-85-120), behind Karl Freiberger, 387.58 kg (77.5-95-90-125), in front of Alberts Ozoliņš , Latvia , 355 kg
1923	1.	Austrian championship	VK	Semi-difficult	with 407 kg (75-95-90-125), in front of Rudolf Straßer, AK Cherusker Vienna, 386.25 kg (80-87.5-90-120)
1924	2.	Viennese championship	FK	Semi-difficult	with 499.5 kg (75-95-90-95-135), behind Karl Freiberger, 505 kg (75-90-92.5-90-135), in front of Rudolf Straßer, 496 kg (82.5-90- 92.5-90-120)
1924	2.	Olympic qualification in Vienna	FK	Semi-difficult	with 475 kg (75-95-85-85-125), behind Karl Freiberger, 487.5 kg (77.5-95-92.5-92.5-130)
1924	bronze	OS in Paris	FK	Semi-difficult	with 490 kg (75-95-95-95-130), behind Charles Rigoulot , France, 502.5 kg (87.5-92.5-85-102.5-140) and Fritz Hünenberger , Switzerland, 490 kg (80-107.5-80-97.5-125), before Karl Freiberger, 487.5 kg (75-95-92.5-95-130)
1924	1.	Exhibition championship in Vienna	VK	Semi-difficult	with 400 kg, ahead of Anton Krenn, 385 kg and Raimund Jahn, 377.5 kg, both Austria
1925	1.	Austrian championship	VK	Semi-difficult	with 405 kg (80-100-95-130), in front of Viktor Biancho, AK Herkules Wien, 396 kg

Explanations

• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
• VK = four-way fight, consisting of one-armed snatch, one-armed pushing, two-armed pushing and two-armed pushing; FK = pentathlon, consisting of one-armed snatch, one-armed thrusting, two-armed pushing, two-armed tearing and two-armed thrusting
• Until 1927, free and unfree transfer was permitted in Austria. Athletes who turned freely received a "supplement" of 10% of the lifted weight
• Medium weight, weight class up to 75 kg, light weight up to 82.5 kg body weight

literature

• "The Olympic Games Paris 1924", commemorative work under the patronage of the Swiss Olympic Committee, Julias Wagner / Zurich and Munich publishers, 1925
• Österreichisches Sporttagblatt, digitized edition (www.anno.onb.ac.at)

Web links

• Leopold Friedrich in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Leopold Friedrich in Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century