Oliver Caruso

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Oliver Caruso Weightlifting
Personal information
Surname: Oliver Caruso
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Date of birth: 20th February 1974
Place of birth: Mosbach
Size: 178 cm
Medal table
Medals

Oliver Caruso (born February 20, 1974 in Mosbach ) is a former weightlifter and medalist at the Olympic Games .

Athletic career

Caruso had his first international competition at the European Championships in 1992 in Szekszárd . He started with a body weight of 75.05 kg in the light heavyweight up to 82.5 kg, since two German lifters were already represented in the middleweight up to 75 kg. He achieved 330.0 kg in a duel (150.0 / 180.0 kg) and took 6th place. In the same year he started at his first Olympic Games in Barcelona at the age of 18 and finished 16th in the middleweight group up to 75 kg with an output of 325.0 kg. He was also able to celebrate his first international success in 1992 at the Junior European Championships in Cardiff in the light heavyweight category up to 82.5 kg, winning bronze in a duel and silver in jerking.

Caruso increased his duel performance and his body weight steadily in the following years. Two important stages in his development were the junior world championship title in Jakarta in 1994 in the class up to 83 kg with an output of 332.5 kg (150.0 / 182.5 kg) and his first participation in a senior world championship in 1995 in Guangzhou , where he finished 7th in the class up to 91 kg with 365.0 kg (170.0 / 195.0 kg).

After winning silver behind the Turk Bulut with 382.5 kg at the European Championships in Stavanger in 1996 with a duel performance of 380.0 kg (175.0 / 205.0 kg), Caruso was definitely one of the medal favorites in the Olympic Games Medium weight up to 91 kg. For example, at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, he increased again to 390.0 kg (175.0 / 215.0 kg) and was able to win bronze with this performance. The winner was Alexei Petrow with 402.5 kg and second Leonidas Kokas , who also achieved 390 kg, but had the lower body weight.

Caruso competed in his next international competition at the 1997 European Championships in Rijeka in the middle-heavy weight category up to 91 kg. With a duel of 385.0 kg (175.0 / 210.0 kg) he won silver behind Bulut. The second German starter Lars Betker finished 5th. After the restructuring of the classes, Caruso continued to start in the middle heavyweight division up to 94 kg. In 1998 he won the European Championship in Riesa, Germany with a performance of 395.0 kg (182.5 / 212.5 kg) in a duel, as well as both individual medals in front of Chakarov with 387.5 kg and Kachiasvilis with 380.0 kg. The German records in snatch and duel, which he set up at this EM, have not yet been surpassed (as of March 2010). At the World Championships in Lahti in the same year , Caruso finished second with exactly the same performance in the duel behind Kachiasvilis with 400.0 kg and ahead of Kokas. In the snatch he was able to win the world title with 182.5 kg.

After a hip injury in 1998, due to which he could not take part in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , Caruso started again for the first time at the 2001 World Cup in Antalya and was able to occupy 8th place with 377.5 kg. At the EM 2002 in Antalya he reached the 6th place with 380.0 kg. At the 2002 World Cup in Warsaw, he won his second world title with 180.0 kg in snatching and took 3rd place in a duel with 387.5 kg (180.0 / 207.5 kg). At his last World Cup in 2003 in Vancouver, 380.0 kg was enough for 9th place in a duel. Despite qualifying, Caruso was unable to compete in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens due to injury.

Caruso broke off his attempt at the Olympic Games in 2008 and ended his international career in April 2008. He completed his last team fight in April 2009 against AC Germania St. Ilgen . In the Bundesliga, Oliver Caruso took part in well over 100 competitions for SV Germania Obrigheim and was able to become German team champion twice and German vice team champion twice.

Others

  • Caruso currently holds (as of March 2010) the German record in snatching in the class up to 94 kg with 182.5 kg, as well as the record in the duel in this class with 395.0 kg. He also holds various youth and junior records.
  • Caruso has been working as the successor to Frank Mantek as the national coach of the German national team for the Federal Association of German Weightlifters since January 2013 (as of August 2016).

Personal best

  • Tearing: 182.5 kg in Riesa in 1998 in the class up to 94 kg
  • Push: 220.5 kg
  • Duel: 397.5 kg (180 + 218 kg) in 1998 in the rain in the class up to 105 kg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Caruso in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on March 7, 2010
  2. ↑ Simone Windhoff, Ursula Vielberg: Solo by Caruso: How the weightlifter won the world title after a long break from injury. In: The world . November 26, 2002, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Oliver Caruso wants to attack again in Beijing. In: Focus . March 16, 2007, accessed April 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Roland Karle: Caruso puts an end to it. (PDF, 53 kB) In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . in the archive of the Obrigheimer Weightlifters website, April 7, 2009, accessed on April 12, 2014 (with photo).
  5. ↑ Obrigheimer Dumbbell Sheet No. 82 - April 18, 2009. (PDF) In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . in the archive of the Obrigheim weightlifting website, accessed on April 12, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Caruso national weightlifting coach until the end of 2016. In: Heilbronn voice. December 21, 2012, accessed August 24, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Doping in weightlifting: "They just keep going on". In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 19, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Obrigheimer Dumbbell Sheet No. 82 - April 18, 2009. (PDF) In: Obrigheimer weightlifters. Retrieved March 7, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Caruso, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th February 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Mosbach