Monique Ludwigs

Monique Ludwigs , née Monique Riesterer (born December 3, 1971 in Rheinfelden ), is a former German weightlifter .

Career

Monique Riesterer grew up in Lörrach and trained there to be an offset printer. At KSV Lörrach, she began weightlifting as a teenager, under the guidance of her father Herbert Riesterer , who was also a weightlifter and also became her first trainer. In Germany weightlifting women had not yet been established, and it took a relatively long time was come into European or international top class to Monique Riesterer. In 1990 she won her first German championship title, and in 1998 the European championship title in the heavyweight open top (over 75 kg body weight). In order to develop further, she moved to Berlin in the mid-1990s, where she started at TSC Berlin and was trained there by Eberhard Deutscher . Towards the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s she was injured several times and, after recovering, had to realize that she was no longer in the world class, which consisted primarily of the Chinese and Russian weightlifters and the Polish woman Agata Wrobel could keep up. She then ended her career. Monique Riesterer is the most successful German weightlifter with 20 medals won at European Championships.

Her duel performance of 247.5 kg, achieved in Lörrach on September 9, 2000, is still a German record; this also applies to the 112.5 kg achieved in the snatch on September 22, 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney (status: 20. July 2012).

She has been married to Mario Ludwigs , a former TSC Berlin weightlifter , since 2004 , and has a daughter with him.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, KG = body weight)

• 1991, 3rd place , EG-Meistersch., Loures b. Lisbon , up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 160 kg, behind Judy Oakes, England , 205 kg and Sandra Smith, England, 162.5 kg;
• 1991, 7th place , WM in Donaueschingen , up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 182.5 kg, winner: Li Hongling , China , 240 kg, ahead of María Isabel Urrutia , Colombia , 240 kg;
• 1992, 2nd place , EM in Loures b. Lisbon , up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 200 kg, behind Karolina Leppaluotto (Lundahl), Finland , 202.5 kg and in front of Line Mary, France , 200 kg;
• 1993, 2nd place , EG-Meistersch., In Athens , up to 83 kg body weight, with 197.5 kg, behind Line Mary, 205 kg and in front of Joanna Hatzioannou, Greece , 150 kg;
• 1993, 4th place , EM in Valencia , up to 76 kg body weight, with 195 kg, behind Senka Assenowa, Bulgaria , 220 kg, P. Antonopoulou, Greece, 210 kg and Vallana Toschewa, Bulgaria, 195 kg;
• 1994, 1st place , EU-Meistersch., St. Pol sur Mer , up to 83 kg body weight, with 210 kg, ahead of Line Mary, 200 kg;
• 1994, 5th place , EM in Rome , up to 83 kg body weight, with 205 kg, winner: Karolina Lundahl , 227.5 kg;
• 1994, 5th place , World Championships in Istanbul , up to 83 kg body weight, with 210 kg;
• 1995, 2nd place , EM in Be'er Scheva , up to 83 kg body weight, with 210 kg, behind Alla Fjodorowa, Russia , 212.5 kg;
• 1995, 4th place , World Championships in Guangzhou , up to 83 kg body weight, with 215 kg, behind Chen Chu-Shin , Taiwan , 240 kg, María Isabel Urrutia, 237.5 kg and P. Antonopoulou, 225 kg;
• 1996, 2nd place , EM in Prague , up to 83 kg body weight, with 225 kg, behind Albina Chomitsch , Russia, 232.5 kg and in front of Karolina Lundahl, 220 kg;
• 1996, 4th place , World Championships in Warsaw , up to 83 kg body weight, with 225 kg, behind Wei Xiangying , China, 242.5 kg, Chen Chu-Shin, 242.5 kg and María Isabel Urrutia, 235 kg;
• 1997, 1st place , EU-Meistersch. in Pori , up to 83 kg body weight, with 220 kg, in front of Philippa Kochliaridou, Greece, 200 kg;
• 1997, 3rd place , EM in Seville , up to 83 kg body weight, with 227.5 kg, behind Derya Açıkgöz , Turkey , 257.5 kg and Albina Chomitsch, 232.5 kg;
• 1997, 6th place , World Championships in Chiangmai / Thailand , up to 83 kg body weight, with 210 kg, behind Derya Açıkgöz, 262.5 kg, Tang Weifang , China, 260 kg, note: Derya Açıkgöz was later disqualified for doping. Monique moved up to 5th place ;
• 1998, 1st place , EU championship, in Innsbruck , over 75 kg body weight, with 220 kg, ahead of Stamatia Bodozi, Greece, 197.5 kg and Philippa Kochliaridou, 190 kg;
• 1998, 1st place , EM in Riesa , over 75 kg body weight, with 225 kg, ahead of Erika Takacs , Hungary , 225 kg and Agata Wrobel , Poland , 225 kg;
• 1998, 5th place , World Championships in Lahti , over 75 kg body weight, with 232.5 kg, winner: Tang Gonghong , China, 255 kg ahead of Chien Hsiao-Lien, Taiwan , 245 kg;
• 2000, 1st place , EU-Meistersch. in Paris , over 75 kg, with 227.5 kg, ahead of Sylvie Iskin, France, 225 kg and Lourdes Gorostegui, Spain , 200 kg;
• 2000, 2nd place , EM in Sofia , over 75 kg body weight, with 245 kg, behind Vita Rudenok, Ukraine , 250 kg and in front of Albina Chomitsch, 237.5 kg;
• 2000, 6th place , OS in Sydney , over 75 kg, with 245 kg, winner: Ding Meiyuan , China, 300 kg ahead of Agata Wrobel, 295 kg;
• 2002, 6th place , EM in Antalya , over 75 kg body weight, with 230 kg, winner: Agata Wrobel, 282.5 kg ahead of Viktoria Varga, Hungary , 270 kg;
• 2002, 10th place , World Championships in Warsaw , over 75 kg, with 242.5 kg, winner: Agata Wrobel, with 287.5 kg, ahead of Albina Chomitsch, 282.5 kg

Medals individual disciplines

• EM gold medal: 1992, tear, 90 kg
• EM silver medals: 1992, push, 110 kg - 1995, snatch, 95 kg - 1995, push, 115 kg - 1996, snatch, 100 kg - 1996, push, 125 kg - 1998, snatch, 102.5 kg - 1998, Bump, 122.5 kg
• European Championship bronze medals: 1993, snatch, 90 kg - 1994, snatch, 95 kg - 1997, snatch, 102.5 kg - 1997, push, 125 kg - 2000, snatch, 110 kg - 2000, push, 135 kg

German championships

• 1990, 1st place, up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 147.5 kg;
• 1991, 1st place, up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 167.5 kg;
• 1992, 1st place, up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 180 kg;
• 1993, 1st place, up to 83 kg body weight, with 195 kg;
• 1994, 1st place, up to 83 kg body weight, with 215 kg;
• 1995, 1st place, up to 83 kg body weight, with 212.5 kg;
• 1996, 1st place, up to 83 kg body weight, with 225 kg;
• 1997, 1st place, up to 83 kg body weight, with 217.5 kg;
• 1998, 1st place, over 75 kg body weight, with 230 kg;
• 1999, 1st place, over 75 kg body weight, with 212.5 kg;
• 2002, 1st place, over 75 kg body weight, with 240 kg

Web links

• Monique Riesterer in the ancestral gallery of TSC Berlin
• jamd photo at the Sydney 2000 Olympics