Rainer Dörrzapf

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Rainer Dörrzapf (born March 6, 1950 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a former German weightlifter and worked as a national weightlifting trainer until 2013.

Career

Rainer Dörrzapf began wrestling as a child on medical advice, after surviving polio, and made it up to the master palatinate in the pupil class. After he got to know weightlifting during wrestling training in 1964, he soon decided on this sport. He joined AC Mutterstadt and has always raised for this club throughout his career. He learned the trade of machine fitter, but later worked in the sports department of a Ludwigshafen department store in order to have more time for training, where he completed his second professional training as a clerk in 1968. With the team of AC Mutterstadt he was German team champion several times. Rainer Dörrzapf joined the top German weightlifting class at the age of 18, and a little later, he was able to take part in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico thanks to his outstanding performance. As a junior he achieved four world records in light and middle heavyweight. His greatest success was winning the World Tear Championship at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Rainer Dörrzapf often suffered injuries that prevented him from developing his full potential. In 1976 he therefore ended his career as an active weightlifter. He then completed a state sports teacher training from 1977 to 1978 in Trier. He then studied at the Cologne Trainer Academy and obtained his trainer diploma in 1979. In 1981 he became a national trainer at the German Weightlifting Association, where he worked at the Bundesleistungszentrum / Leimen until 2003. He then worked until June 2013 at the Heidelberg Olympic Training Center as a federal training base for the next generation.

In retirement, he gives lectures on strength / athletic training and is a volunteer at his club, AC Mutterstadt . There he also looks after his son, André Dörrzapf, who is already a German youth and junior weightlifting champion.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = light heavyweight, Ms = medium heavyweight, S = heavyweight, up to 110 kg body weight, competitions up to 1972 in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 in single combat consisting of tearing and pushing)

  • 1968, 1st place , Donau Cup Juniors in Budapest , Ls with 420.0 (130.0, 135.0, 155.0);
  • 1968, 8th place , EM in Leningrad , Ls, with 427.5 kg, winner: Boris Selizki , USSR , 472.5 kg, ahead of Norbert Ozimek , Poland , 470 kg;
  • 1968, 11th place , OS in Mexico City , Ls, with 435 kg, winner: Selitzki, 485 kg, ahead of Vladimir Belyayev , USSR, 485 kg;
  • 1970, 1st place , Donau Cup Juniors in Lörrach , Ms, with 470 kg, ahead of Georgiev, Bulgaria, 427.5 kg;
  • 1970, 7th place , World Championship in Columbus / USA , Ms, with 470 kg, winner: Wassili Kolotow , USSR, 537.5 kg, ahead of Phil Grippaldi , USA, 490 kg;
  • 1971, unplaced , EM in Sofia , Ms, three failed attempts in pushing;
  • 1972, 8th place , OS in Munich , S, with 522.5 kg, winner: Jaan Talts , USSR, 580 kg, ahead of Kraitschew, Bulgaria, 562.5 kg;
  • 1974, unplaced , EM in Verona , Ms, retired due to injury

Medals individual disciplines

  • World Cup gold medal: 1972, tear, S, with 165 kg
  • World Cup silver medal, 1970, tear, Ms, with 145 kg

German championships

  • 1966, 1st place, youth, up to 75 kg body weight, with 330 kg;
  • 1967, 1st place, youth, up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 385 kg;
  • 1968, 1st place, youth, up to 82.5 kg body weight, with 405 kg;
  • 1968, 1st place, juniors, Ls, with 425 kg;
  • 1968, 2nd place, Ls, with 430 kg, behind Werner Kucera , Landshut , 430 kg, and in front of Bernd Rolser , Braunschweig , 407.5 kg;
  • 1969, 1st place, Ms, with 475 kg, ahead of Willi Müller , Fellbach, 470 kg, and Kauk, Nürnberg , 430 kg;
  • 1972, 1st place, S, with 532.5 kg, ahead of Arthur Haun , Mannheim , 525 kg, and Günter Drobing, Oberhausen, 517.5 kg;
  • 1973, 1st place, Ms, with 315 kg, ahead of Dieter Werner , Mannheim, 305 kg, and Stefan Reiss , Rettigheim, 295 kg;
  • 1976, 1st place, Ms, with 330 kg, ahead of Karl-Heinz Schütz, Weinheim , 302.5 kg

For his sporting success he received the silver laurel leaf from Federal President Walter Scheel .

Junior world records

in pressing:

  • 162.5 kg, 1970 in Mutterstadt, Ms

in tears:

swell

  • " Athletik " trade journal from 1966 to 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesarchiv, Bundespräsidialamt, (term of office Walter Scheel), sports prizes, award of the Silver Laurel Leaf, Aktz. BArch B 122/18340
personal data
SURNAME Dörrzapf, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein