Mike Karchut

Mike Karchut (born April 27, 1944 in Delmenhorst ) is a former American weightlifter .

Career

Mike Karchut was one of the American weightlifters who grew up no longer in New York or California in the 1960s , but in the Midwest . In Chicago , he started lifting weights as an autodidact in 1960 and got his training advice from the popular weight training magazine "Strength & Health". He later trained in the famous YMCA Duncan Gym. In 1965 he took first place with the US amer. Junior middleweight championships with 382.5 kg. That was his first important competition. After making the leap to the US national team, he was trained in the "Sayre Park" club by Mihály Huszka , the former Hungarian world class weightlifter who had emigrated to the USA via Austria and a number of young American weightlifters among his Had wings. Mike Karchut, who was a brilliant technician, won five medals at world championships. However, there was no golden one.

After working as an active weightlifter, Mike Karchut ran Mike's Gym, a regional weightlifting training center.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Ls = light heavyweight, then up to 82.5 kg body weight, Ms = medium heavyweight, then up to 90 kg body weight, competitions up to 1972 in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 in Duel, consisting of tearing and pushing)

• 1969, unplaced , World Cup in Warsaw , Ls, after 3 failed attempts in the tear;
• 1970, 4th place , World Championships in Columbus / USA , Ls, with 480 kg, behind Gennadi Ivanchenko , USSR , 505 kg, Norbert Ozimek , Poland , 482.5 kg and David Rigert , USSR, 482.5 kg;
• 1971, 1st place , PanAm Games in Cali , Ls, with 472.5 kg, ahead of Juan Curbelo, Cuba , 460 kg and Angel Pagan, Puerto Rico , 432.5 kg;
• 1971, 4th place , WM in Lima , Ls, with 480 kg, behind Boris Pawlow , USSR, 495 kg, Kaarlo Kangasniemi , Finland , 490 kg and György Horvath , Hungary , 482.5 kg;
• 1972, unplaced , OS in Munich , Ls, gave up pushing due to injury;
• 1973, 8th place , World Championship in Havana , Ls, with 322.5 kg, winner: Wladimir Ryschenkow , USSR, 350 kg, ahead of Frank Zielecke , GDR , 347.5 kg

Medals individual disciplines

(all fought in the light heavyweight division)

• World Cup silver medals: 1971, tearing, 145 kg - 1971, pushing, 182.5 kg,
• World Championship bronze medals: 1970, push, 155 kg - 1970, push, 182.5 kg - 1972, tear, 145 kg
• PanAm Games Gold Medals: 1971, pushing, 150 kg - 1971, snatch, 142.5 kg - 1971, pushing, 180 kg

USA championships

• 1967, 4th place, Wed, with 397.5 kg, behind Russell Knipp , 432.5 kg, Anthony Garcy , 412.5 kg and Peter Rawluk, 397.5 kg;
• 1968, 2nd place, Wed, with 420 kg, behind Knipp, 432.5 kg and in front of Rawluk, 420 kg;
• 1969, 1st place, Ls, with 470 kg, ahead of Knipp, 462.5 kg and Patrick Holbrook , 440 kg;
• 1970, 1st place, Ls, with 480 kg, in front of Joe Puleo , 480 kg and Holbrook, 472.5 kg;
• 1971, 1st place, Ls, with 457.5 kg, in front of Sam Bigler, 445 kg and Rawluk, 437.5 kg;
• 1972, 1st place, Ls, with 472.5 kg, ahead of Tom Hirtz, 445 kg and Rawluk, 440 kg;
• 1973, 1st place, Ls, with 315 kg, in front of Art Drechsler, 307.5 kg and Rawluk, 307.5 kg;
• 1974, 2nd place, Ms, with 332.5 kg, behind Phil Grippaldi , 342.5 kg and in front of Mark Cameron , 330 kg;
• 1975, 1st place, Ms, with 340 kg, ahead of Frank Capsouras , 325 kg and Bob Giordano, 302.5 kg;
• 1978, 1st place, Ls, with 327.5 kg, ahead of Jim Napier, 317.5 kg and Lou Mucardo, 307.5 kg;
• 1979, 2nd place, Ls, with 312.5 kg, behind Hirtz, 317.5 kg and in front of Pete Cline, 297.5 kg;
• 1980, 1st place, Ls, with 327.5 kg, in front of Michael Cohen, 325 kg and Hirtz, 322.5 kg;
• 1983, 4th place, behind Cohen, 352.5 kg, Kevin Winter, 352.5 kg and Val Balison, 347.5 kg

Web links

• Short portrait in English Speech with many pictures by Mike Karchut
• Mike Karchut in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )