Rolf Milser

Rolf Milser
Personal information
Surname:	Rolf Milser
Nationality:	Germany
Date of birth:	June 28, 1951
Place of birth:	Bernburg (Saale)
Medal table

Rolf Milser (born June 28, 1951 in Bernburg (Saale) ) is a former German weightlifter and hotelier .

Athletic career

Milser grew up in Duisburg , where he found weightlifting. He trained with the Hochfelder Athleten Gesellschaft and started in 1968 for the first time at the German youth championships, where he finished ninth with 255 kg in a three-way battle in the class up to 70 kg body weight. In the following years he improved almost every year until 1972 by about 50 kg in three-way combat.

In 1971 he won the German junior championship in light heavyweight up to 82.5 kg body weight with 412.5 kg. In 1972 he became German champion for the first time and started at the Olympic Games in Munich , where he finished 7th with 477.5 kg. After the 1972 Olympics, pushing, one of Milser's strengths, and with it the three-way battle, was abolished. The athletes now competed in a duel consisting of snatching and pushing.

He contested his first world championships in a duel in 1973 in Havana in the class up to 82.5 kg and finished 4th with 332.5 kg. At the World Championships a year later in Manila he was able to improve significantly and won bronze with 347.5 kg in a duel behind Stojtschew and Jenssen with 350.0 kg each. In 1975 in Moscow the same duel was enough for 4th place, but Milser won gold with 200.0 kg in the jerk.

At the 1976 Olympic Games , Milser was one of the title favorites. However, after he was unable to break due to cramps caused by training off his body weight and thus could not bring in a duel, the Soviet lifter Walery Schary won with 365.0 kg. Although Milser still won the World Cup gold in jerking with 205.0 kg, since both competitions were still held as one event, he could not win an Olympic medal. Also in 1976 Milser broke a world record with 207.5 kg in Berlin .

For the World / European Championships in Stuttgart in 1977 , Milser switched to medium heavyweight, at that time up to 90 kg body weight. With a duel of 370.0 kg (162.5 kg / 207.5 kg) he reached the 2nd place behind the Soviet lifter Sergej Poltoratsky with 375.0 kg. In 1978 in Gettysburg, Milser won his first World Championship gold in a duel with 377.5 kg (162.5 kg / 215.0 kg) ahead of Gennadi Bessonow with 375.0 kg and Antalovics with 367.5 kg. A year later in Saloniki , Bessonow achieved 380.0 kg, relegating Milser to second place with 377.5 kg (165.0 kg / 212.5 kg). At the European Championships in the same year, Milser set his second world record with 222.5 kg.

In the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , for which he was considered one of the favorites, Milser could not participate because of the boycott of the western states. So gold in the middleweight weight up to 90 kg with a duel performance of 377.5 kg (170.0 kg / 207.5 kg) went to Peter Baczako . Milser had already achieved this performance at the two previous world championships. He would have been the strongest striker in the field.

At the World Championships in 1981 in Lille he could not bring in a valid attempt after 167.5 kg in the snap in the push and thus remained unplaced. The winner was Blagoj Blagoew with 405.0 kg (185.0 kg / 220.0 kg), ahead of Yuri Ivanovich Sacharewitsch with 397.5 kg (180.0 kg / 217.5 kg). For the 1982 and 1983 World Cups, Milser switched to heavyweight weights up to 100.0 kg. Here in Moscow he could only counter the rapidly rising level of the east lifters with 390.0 kg and came in sixth. The winner was Pavel Kuznetsov ahead of Alexander Popov , each with 422.5 kg in a duel.

After the boycott of the Eastern States at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Milser had medal chances again, which he was able to implement at his fourth Olympic Games. He won heavyweight gold with 385.0 kg (167.5 kg / 217.5 kg). The world record at that time was 440.0 kg in a duel, set in 1983 by Yuri Ivanovich Sakharevich . Due to the absence of the Osthebers, the field of participants was weak. The 217.5 kg reached by Milser in the push still meant an Olympic record. After winning the Olympic gold medal, the six-time world champion Milser ended his active career as a weightlifter in 1984, in which he also set the two world records mentioned above in addition to 114 German records.

After active sport

After his career as an active weightlifter, Milser was the national trainer of German weightlifters for twelve years and president of the Association of German Diploma Trainers (VDDT) for five years .

He runs a hotel in Duisburg- Huckingen , where the Monegasque princely family stayed for the 2004 Champions League final and the Italian national soccer team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup .

Others

• Milser openly admitted to their use until the ban on anabolic steroids in 1977 and advocated controlled use. The weightlifter Karl-Heinz Radschinsky testified that Rolf Milser was involved in a system of organized doping, in which he collected urine samples and informed the athletes when they were considered "clean" again after stopping the doping ration.
• In 1984 he played a leading role in the comedy Three and a Half Serving with Karl Dall , Jürgen Hingsen and Patrick Bach .
• Milser was involved as an ambassador for the 2006 World Cup for people with disabilities in Germany.

statistics

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships, Ls = light heavyweight, Ms = middle heavyweight, 1st S = 1st heavyweight, competitions up to 1972 in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing and since 1973 in a duel, consisting of tearing and pushing)

• 1972, 5th place , EM in Constanța , Ls, with 477.5 kg, behind Boris Pawlow , USSR , 512.5 kg, Leif Jensen , Norway , 505 kg, Kaarlo Kangasniemi , Finland , 495 kg and Norbert Ozimek , Poland , 485 kg;
• 1972, 7th place , OS in Munich , Ls, with 477.5 kg, behind Jensen, 507.5 kg, Ozimek, 497.5 kg, György Horvath, Hungary , 495 kg, Bernhard Radtke, GDR , 492.5 kg Christos Iakovou, Greece , 490 kg and Kangasniemi, 480 kg;
• 1973, 1st place , EG Cup tournament, Ls, with 312.5 kg, ahead of Zuttermann, Belgium , 277.5 kg and Jürgen Wegel, Germany, 275 kg;
• 1973, 6th place , EM in Madrid , Ls, with 325 kg, behind Wladimir Ryschenkow , USSR, 352.5 kg, R. Rusew, Bulgaria, 335 kg, Frank Zielecke , GDR, 332.5 kg, Horvath, 330 kg and S. Sochanski, Poland, 325 kg;
• 1973, 4th place , World Cup in Havana , Ls, with 332.5 kg, behind Ryschenkow, 350 kg, target corner, 347.5 kg and Sochanski, 332.5 kg;
• 1974, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Yerevan , Ls, with 317.5 kg, behind Ryschenkow, 360 kg and in front of Markow, Bulgaria, 297.5 kg;
• 1974, 9th place , EM in Verona , Ls, with 300 kg (injury when tearing), winner: Ryschenkow, 357.5 kg, ahead of Trendafil Stojtschew , Bulgaria, 347.5 kg;
• 1974, 3rd place , World Championships in Manila , Ls, with 347.5 kg, behind Stojtschew, 350 kg and Leif Jensen, Norway, 350 kg;
• 1975, 1st place , Danube Cup in Donaueschingen , Ls, with 347.5 kg, ahead of Petkow, Bulgaria, 345 kg and Peter Baczako, Hungary, 325 kg;
• 1975, 4th place , WM + EM in Moscow , Ls, with 347.5 kg, behind Valeri Schari , USSR, 357.5 kg, Stojtschew, 357.5 kg and Juhani Avellan, Finland, 350 kg;
• 1976 4th place , EM in Berlin , Ls, with 357.5 kg, behind Shary, 367.5 kg, Blagoj Blagoew , Bulgaria, 365 kg and Stojtschew, 365 kg;
• 1976, unplaced , OS in Montreal , Ls, after three failed attempts in the snatch, winners: Shary, 365 kg ahead of Blagoew, 360 kg and Stojtschew, 360 kg; Blagoew was subsequently convicted of doping. The silver medal was withdrawn from him.
• 1977, 2nd place ( 2nd place ), WM + EM in Stuttgart , Ms, with 370 kg, behind Sergej Poltoratzki , USSR, 375 kg and in front of Alberto Blanco, Cuba , 355 kg;
• 1978, 1st place , EC cup tournament in Lille, Ms, with 360 kg, ahead of Langford, Great Britain , 320 kg and de Grauwe, Belgium , 297.5 kg;
• 1978, 2nd place , EM in Havířov , Ms, with 375 kg, behind David Rigert , USSR, 397.5 kg and in front of Andon Nikolov , Bulgaria, 352.5 kg;
• 1978, 1st place , World Championship in Gettysburg , Ms, with 377.5 kg, ahead of Gennadi Bessonow , USSR, 375 kg and Antalovics, Hungary, 367.5 kg;
• 1979, 1st place , EC cup tournament in Kassel , Ms, with 362.5 kg, ahead of Pierre Gourrier, France, 330 kg and Helmut Müller, Germany, 320 kg;
• 1979, 1st place , EM in Varna , Ms, with 382.5 kg, ahead of Baczako, 370 kg and V. Shary, 370 kg;
• 1979, 2nd place , WM in Saloniki , Ms, with 377.5 kg, behind Bessonow, 380 kg and in front of Witold Wala, Poland, 362.5 kg;
• 1980, 1st place , Baltic Cup, Ms, with 370 kg, ahead of Bessonow, 350 kg and Gerd Kennel, Germany, 347.5 kg;
• 1981, unplaced , WM + EM in Lille , after three failed attempts in jerking;
• 1982, 4th place ( 4th place ), WM + EM in Ljubljana , 1st side, with 372.5 kg, behind Viktor Sots , USSR, 422.5 kg, Yuri Zakharewich , USSR, 420 kg and Matykiewicz, Poland , 397.5 kg;
• 1983, 2nd place , EC cup tournament in Copenhagen , 1st side, with 377.5 kg, behind Norberto Oberburger , Italy, 387.5 kg and in front of Panayotakis, Greece , 352.5 kg;
• 1983, 6th place , WM + EM in Moscow , 1.S., with 390 kg, behind Pavel Kuznezow, USSR, 422.5 kg, Alexander Popow, USSR, 422.5 kg, Andrzej Komar, Poland, 407.5 kg, Vasile Groapa, Romania , 397.5 kg and Wladislaw Barton, CSSR, 395 kg;
• 1984, gold medal , OS in Los Angeles, 1st p., With 385 kg, ahead of Groapa, 382.5 kg and Pekka Niemi, Finland, 367.5 kg

Medals individual disciplines

(in weight classes Ls, Ms and 1.S,)

• World Cup gold medals: 1975, push, 200 kg - 1976, push, 205 kg - 1977, push, 207.5 kg - 1978, push, 215 kg - 1979, push, 212.5 kg
• World Cup silver medals: 1977, snatch, 162.5 kg - 1979, snatch, 165 kg - 1984, snatch, 167.5 kg - 1984, push, 217.5 kg
• World Championship bronze medals: 1972, push, 165 kg
• European Championship gold medals: 1976, push, 207.5 kg - 1977, push, 207.5 kg - 1979, push, 222.5 kg
• European Championship silver medals: 1973, push, 190 kg - 1977, snatch, 162.5 kg - 1978, push, 215 kg

German championships

• 1971, 4th place in Coburg , Ls, with 430 kg, behind Albert Huser , Mannheim , 445 kg, Albert Haag, Fellbach , 435 kg and Wolfgang Kneißl , Fellbach, 432.5 kg;
• 1972, 1st place in Fellbach, Ls, with 470 kg, ahead of Kneißl, 46o kg and Popiolek, Sarstedt , 450 kg;
• 1973, 1st place in Oberhausen , Ls, with 320 kg, ahead of Kneißl, 295 kg and Steinbach, Altrip , 290 kg;
• 1974, 1st place in Mutterstadt , Ms, ahead of Stefan Reiss, Rettigheim , 317.5 kg and Dartmut Daub, Hostenbach , 297.5 kg;
• 1975, 1st place in Munich , Ls, with 335 kg, ahead of Gerd Kennel , Hostenbach, 312.5 kg and Reinhard Ritt, Wetzgau , 307.5 kg;
• 1976, 1st place in St. Ilgen , 1st p., With 370 kg, ahead of Wolfgang Neyses , Trier , 345 kg and Winfried Beer, Hostenbach, 330 kg;
• 1977, 1st place in Fellbach, Ms, with 375 kg, in front of Kennel, 332.5 kg and Helmut Müller, Neuaubing, 315 kg;
• 1978, 1st place in Langen, Ms, with 375 kg, ahead of Mieczyslaw Szafranski, Wolfsburg , 300 kg;
• 1979, 1st place in Mutterstadt, Ms, with 362.5 kg, ahead of Szafranski, 317.5 kg and Hans Beisiegel, Elz, 307.5 kg;
• 1980, 1st place in Coburg , 1st side , with 362.5 kg, ahead of Bernhard Radtke, Wolfsburg, 345 kg and Szafranski, 320 kg;
• 1981, 1st place in Offenburg , 1st page, with 380 kg, ahead of Olaf Peters , Berlin , 342.5 kg and Erhard Keller, Mutterstadt, 327.5 kg;
• 1982, 1st place in Wiesbaden , 1st page, with 372.5 kg, in front of Keller, 335 kg and Rolf Richter, Kassel , 330 kg;
• 1983, 1st place in Mutterstadt, 1st p., With 377.5 kg, ahead of Frederyk Mis, Wuppertal, 360 kg and Richter, 345 kg

World records

In two-armed thrusting:

• 207.5 kg, 1976 in Berlin, Ls,
• 222.5 kg, 1979 in Varna, Ms

In addition, Rolf Milser set a total of 115 German records in his career.

Web links

• Portrait of Rolf Milser on chidlovski.net
• Rolf Milser at the Institute for Applied Training Science

Individual evidence

1. ^ "The great Olympia Lexicon", Sport-Bild from June 19, 1996, p. 43
2. ↑ Hotel Landhaus Milser - Imprint , accessed on April 28, 2016
3. ↑ Andreas Singler, Gerhard Treutlein: Doping in top-class sport: Sports-scientific analyzes of national and international performance development , accessed on January 8, 2009
4. ^ Nicole Arndt, Andreas Singler and Gerhard Treutlein: Sport without doping . Ed .: German Sports Youth. 1st edition. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-89152-485-4 , p. 45 ( online [PDF]).
5. ↑ Weightlifting should no longer be Olympic on Abendblatt.de from December 29, 2015, accessed on March 31, 2016
6. ↑ That stuff made me wild - doping (III): This is how doctors, trainers and athletes manipulate in the Federal Republic of Germany Der Spiegel, March 26, 1990