Rudolf Wladimirowitsch Pljukfelder

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Rudolf Wladimirowitsch Pljukfelder ( Russian Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфельдер ; born September 6, 1928 in Novoorlivka , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet weightlifter .

Career

Rudolf Pljukfelder's family name actually goes back to Pflugfelder; As with many Germans from Russia, this modified variant came about through emigration to the Russian Empire , which was characterized by the Cyrillic script . Pljukfelder spent his childhood in his birthplace. After Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, he and his family were deported to Siberia . His father and a brother were killed, who were shot by Stalin's henchmen. Rudolf came to Kisseljowsk in Western Siberia and worked there from the age of 14 in a mine until 1962 underground. In his spare time he started doing sports, first athletics , then wrestling . He started lifting weights at the age of 22. He trained in Kisseljowsk without a coach. In the course of time an excellent weightlifting team developed in Kisseljowsk, which was trained by Rudolf and in which the later multiple world champion Alexei Wachonin was the most famous athlete. Rudolf later moved with his family to Shakhty near Rostov-on-Don . In 1956 he reached the top of the Soviet weightlifters when he took third place in the light heavyweight category (up to 82.5 kg body weight) at the Völkerspartakiade with 417.5 kg. In 1958 he became the first Soviet champion. He came to international assignments for the first time in 1959 because he was preferred to the old master Trofim Lomakin in 1957 and 1958 . Until 1964 Rudolf Pljukfelder was then in the Soviet national team. The Olympic victory in Tokyo in 1964 at the age of 36 was his greatest success.

After finishing his career as an active weightlifter, Rudolf Pljukfelder trained several weightlifters in Shakhty to become Olympic, world and European champions. Mention may be made here Dawid Rigert , Gennady Bessonov , Nikolai Kolesnikov and Viktor Tregubow . Although Rudolf Pljukfelder had undoubtedly made great contributions to Soviet and Russian weightlifting while he was living in Lithuania, more and more clubs were thrown between his legs by people who obviously envied him his successes. He therefore emigrated to Kassel with his family .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = light heavyweight)

  • 1957, 1st place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow , Ls, with 432.5 kg, ahead of Philipp Caira, England , 400 kg and Günter Siebert, GDR , 400 kg;
  • 1958, 1st place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow, Ls, with 440 kg, in front of Viktor Lyach, USSR, 425 kg and Volchkov, USSR, 425 kg;
  • 1959, 1st place , WM + EM in Warsaw , Ls, with 457.5 kg, ahead of Ireneusz Paliński , Poland , 432.5 kg and James George , USA , 417.5 kg;
  • 1960, 1st place , EM in Milan , Ls, with 442.5 kg, ahead of Paliński, 425 kg and Marcel Paterni , France , 415 kg;
  • 1961, 1st place , WM + EM in Vienna , Ls, with 450 kg, ahead of Géza Tóth , Hungary , 432.5 kg and Thomas Kono , USA, 430 kg;
  • 1963, 2nd place , WM + EM in Stockholm , Ls, with 467.5 kg, behind Győző Veres , Hungary, 477.5 kg and in front of Tóth, 450 kg;
  • 1964, 1st place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Moscow, Ls, with 470 kg, ahead of Rastscheschkin, USSR, 450 kg and Wojciechowski, USSR, 440 kg;
  • 1964, gold medal , OS in Tokyo, Ls, with 475 kg, ahead of Tóth, 467.5 kg and Veres, 467.5 kg.

USSR championships

  • 1956, 3rd place, Ls, with 417.5 kg, behind Vasili Stepanow , 427.5 kg and Pegov, 420 kg;
  • 1957, 2nd place, Ls, with 432.5 kg, behind Trofim Lomakin , 440 kg and in front of Rudman, 427.5 kg;
  • 1958, 1st place, Ls, with 440 kg, in front of Lyach, 425 kg and Woltschkow, 425 kg;
  • 1959, 1st place, Ls, with 445 kg, ahead of Rastscheschkin, 425 kg and Pegow, 420 kg;
  • 1960, 1st place, Ls, with 455 kg, in front of Pegow, 440 kg and Ljach, 435 kg;
  • 1961, 1st place, Ls, with 462.5 kg, ahead of Fyodor Bogdanowski , 440 and Rastscheschkin, 435 kg;
  • 1962, 1st place, Ls, with 450 kg, ahead of Rastscheschkin, 440 kg and Bogdanowski, 435 kg.

World records

(all achieved in light heavyweight)

in pressing:

in tears:

in the Olympic three-way battle:

  • 452.5 kg, 1958 in Rostov,
  • 455 kg, 1959 in Ufa,
  • 457.5 kg, 1959 in Warsaw,
  • 462.5 kg, in 1961 in Dnepropetrovsk.

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personal data
SURNAME Pljukfelder, Rudolf Wladimirowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Плюкфельдер, Рудольф Владимирович (Cyrillic); Pflugfelder, Rudolf (German)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Novoorlivka , Donetsk Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union