Rudolf Mang

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Rudolf Mang (1967)

Personal information
Surname: Rudolf Mang
Nationality: GermanyGermany Germany
Date of birth: June 17, 1950
Place of birth: Bellenberg
Date of death: March 12, 2018
Place of death: Bellenberg
Size: 180 cm
Medal table
Medals

Rudolf Mang (born June 17, 1950 in Bellenberg ; † March 12, 2018 there ) was a German weightlifter . He was also called the Bear von Bellenberg .

Athletic career

Rudolf Mang came from a family in the Bavarian-Swabian town of Bellenberg, in which heavy athletics (wrestling and weightlifting) was traditionally practiced and is still practiced today. He started lifting weights at a young age. At the age of 14 he was second in the Olympic three-way battle with 320 kg of the German youth championship in the fight against 18-year-old athletes.

A year later he already weighed about 100 kg and managed 425 kg. At this time, the former German master Josef Schnell from Schrobenhausen took over his training. Schnell was an autodidact as a coach and within three years led Mang to the top of the world. The stations were: 450 kg in 1966, 502.5 kg in April 1968 and 525 kg at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City . Mang and Schnell were very idiosyncratic personalities who nevertheless seemed made for each other.

Rudolf Mang delivered his best competition at the 1972 European Championships in Constanța . In the fight against Vasily Alexejew he beat him in pushing with 230 kg, in snatch with 177.5 kg and led by 7.5 kg ahead of pushing. Alexejew, who pushed 232.5, could still catch Mang with 222.5 kg in the push. With 630 kg in the Olympic three-way battle, Mang showed the second best performance ever achieved.

On September 11, 1972, the Federal President awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf .

At the Olympic Games in Munich in the same year , however, he could no longer call up this performance, although he had previously shown even better performance in training. With 610 kg in the triathlon (225-170-215) he was clearly defeated by Alexejew, who scored 640 kg. His relative weakness in pushing at 215 kg was again noticeable. Mang was now looked after by Rolf Feser , who trained him instead of Schnell until the end of his career.

Mang began to develop health problems resulting from his hard training at a young age. He had to severely limit his training in 1973 and finally end his sporting career entirely in 1974 in order to prevent serious damage to health.

During his most successful sporting phase, he weighed 130 kilograms.

Personal

Mang, who had trained as a telecommunications mechanic at the Deutsche Bundespost , went into business for himself as a studio owner and manufacturer of training equipment and lived with his wife Heidi (aka Heidemarie) in Bellenberg. He had a son who was engaged in medical imaging.

Mang died of a heart attack at the age of 67 .

statistics

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, S = heavy or super heavyweight, competitions up to 1972 in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 in a duel consisting of tearing and pushing)

  • 1968, 1st place , Danube Cup in Donaueschingen , S, with 490 kg, ahead of Atanassow, Bulgaria , 480 kg and Lexa, CSSR , 472.5 kg;
  • 1968, 1st place, Donau Cup Juniors in Budapest, S, with 492.5 (165.0, 142.0, 185) kg;
  • 1968, 5th place , OS in Mexico City, S, with 525 kg, behind Leonid Schabotinski , USSR , 572.5 kg, Serge Reding , Belgium , 555 kg, Joe Dube , USA , 555 kg and Manfred Rieger , GDR , 532.5 kg;
  • 1969, 5th place . (4th place) , WM + EM in Sofia , S, with 535 kg, behind Dube, 577.5 kg, Reding, 570 kg, Stanislav Batischew , USSR, 570 kg and Rieger, 537.5 kg;
  • 1971, 3rd place , EM in Sofia, S, with 602.5 kg, behind Vasily Alexejew , USSR, 630 kg and Batischew, 607.5 kg;
  • 1972, 2nd place , EM in Constanța , S, with 630 kg, behind Alexejew, 632.5 kg and in front of Gerd Bonk , GDR, 565 kg;
  • 1972, silver medal , OS in Munich , S, with 610 kg, behind Alexejew, 640 kg and in front of Bonk, 572.5 kg;
  • 1973, 3rd place , EM in Madrid , S, with 387.5 kg, behind Alexejew, 417.5 kg and Batischew, 395 kg;
  • 1973, 2nd place , World Cup in Havana , S, with 400 kg, behind Alexejew, 402.5 kg and in front of Batischew, 392.5 kg and Bonk, 382.5 kg;
  • 1974, 1st place , Danube Cup in Braunau , S, with 387.5 kg, in front of Tramburadjiew, Bulgaria, 385 kg and Pavlasek, CSSR, 365 kg

Medals in the individual disciplines

(awarded since 1969)

  • World Cup gold medal: 1973, tear, 180 kg;
  • World Cup silver medals: 1972, pushing, 225 kg - 1972, snatching, 170 kg;
  • World Cup bronze medals: 1972, push, 215 kg - 1973, push, 220 kg
  • EM gold medals: 1971, tear, 175 kg - 1972, push, 230 kg - 1972, tear, 177.5 kg;
  • European Championship silver medals: 1972, push, 222.5 kg - 1973, snatch, 172.5 kg;
  • EM bronze medals: 1969, snatch, 155 kg, 1971, push, 212.5 kg - 1971, push, 215 kg - 1973, push, 15 kg

German championships

Rudolf Mang was German champion in the all-around competition in 1968, 1971 and 1973.

World records

Mang set two world records in his career. In 1972 he improved in Ulm the world record of pushing in the super heavyweight at 230.5 kg and 1973 in Munich kg the world record in the snatch at 183.0.

Personal best

  • Pressing: 230.5 kg in 1972 in Ulm in the 110 kg class
  • Tear: 183.0 kg in 1973 in Munich in the 110 kg class
  • Push: 222.5 kg 1972 in Constanța in the 110 kg class
  • Duel: 400.0 kg (180.0 / 220.0 kg) 1973 in Havana
  • Triathlon: 630.0 kg (230.0 / 177.5 / 222.5 kg) 1972 in Constanța in the class over 110 kg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf Mang in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
  2. ↑ a b Augsburger Allgemeine: The "Bear von Bellenberg": Weightlifting legend Rudolf Mang is dead . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on March 13, 2018]).
  3. ^ Information given to the Bundestag by the Federal Government on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Here page 59.
  4. ↑ Landessportbund honors trainer Rolf Feser
  5. ↑ "Hello, Rudolf Mang, what are you actually doing?", Kicker of April 8, 1999, p. 39
personal data
SURNAME Mang, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellenberg
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2018
Place of death Bellenberg