Olaf Peters (weightlifter)

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Olaf Peters (born July 14, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a former German weightlifter and later bodybuilder .

Life

Peters attended the Bramfeld district school in Hamburg . He is a full-time police officer in Meiendorf .

Weightlifting

Peters competed as a weightlifter for the AC Berlin (Athletics Club Berlin), Marzahn-Hellersdorf district .

In 1981 he won the German championships in Offenburg in the “1. Heavyweight "(1st SG) with 342.5 kg silver; Rolf Milser won the championship title in the 1st SG with a weight of 380 kg. In 1982 he entered the German championships in Wiesbaden in the class "2nd Heavyweight "(2nd SG) and won the championship here.

He qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and reached 8th place in class 2. SG (up to 110 kg).

At the German championships (men - 1. SG) he won bronze in Duisburg in 1987 and gold in Baunatal in 1988 .

Bodybuilding

In his hometown of Hamburg he then devoted himself to bodybuilding and has been running a fitness studio there in Bramfeld for several years . In 1992 he was convicted of drug trafficking together with weightlifter Andreas Sollwedel, who tested positive for doping in 1981, for selling so-called “ hormone preparations ”.

At the German Championships in 1993 he was third in the heavyweight division. At the IFBB European Championships he won silver in 1993 and bronze in 1995 in the "light heavyweight" class (up to 90 kg). In 2001 he won the 9th World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) in bodybuilding in Indianapolis (over 90 kg - Master (A)). In the senior sector he was world champion in the age group 50+ in 2006 and third in 2007.

As a fitness trainer, he worked for a short time as a personal trainer for Serhij Kurtschenko in Kiev .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Natalie Bombeck: Exhibition: The Hamburg Götz Schwan photographed 49 people in their apartments. Hamburger Abendblatt, April 12, 2003.
  2. ↑ Weightlifting - German Championships (Men - Part 2). sport-komplett.de.
  3. ↑ Weightlifting - German Championships (men - 1st heavyweight). sport-komplett.de.
  4. ^ Andreas Singler , Gerhard Treutlein : Doping in top sport. Sports science analyzes of national and international performance development. Meyer & Meyer Verlag, 2006, p. 173. ISBN 978-3-898-99192-6
  5. ^ Doping: active repression. The sports federations fail in dealing with the drug problem. Courts work on the contaminated sites. Der Spiegel 53/1992, December 28, 1992.
  6. ↑ 1993 German Championships - Overall Winner. musclememory.com.
  7. ^ Bodybuilding - European Championships (men). sport-komplett.de.
  8. ↑ Athletics: Olaf Peters (45). In: 2001. Newspaper archive, Hamburger Abendblatt.
  9. ^ World Police & Fire Games IX - The Results. 2001 World Police & Fire Games June 8–16, p. 16.
  10. ↑ Int. German Championship 2006. Report and complete list of results. Body-Xtreme, December 3, 2006.
  11. ↑ 2006 World Amateur Championships - IFBB. musclememory.com.
  12. ↑ 2007 World Amateur Championships - IFBB. musclememory.com.
  13. ↑ Michael Streck: Money, but no muscles - the real problems of billionaires. Stern, June 18, 2015.
  14. ↑ The year of birth specified in the Sports-Reference database is incorrect; see, for example, the individual references to articles in the Hamburger Abendblatt or his personal profile on badoo .
personal data
SURNAME Peters, Olaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weightlifter and later bodybuilder
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg