Heavy athletics

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Arnold Schwarzenegger , probably the most famous bodybuilder, in his active time in 1974

The heavy athletics summarizes sports where individual muscle strength is paramount.

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A symbiosis of heavy and track and field athletics

Since the beginning of the 20th century there were competing sports associations for heavy athletics in the German Reich. From 1938 the sports of heavy athletics (wrestling, weightlifting, tug of war, round weight juggling, jiu jitsu / judo, lawn power sports and strength acrobatics) were combined in Fachamt 6 of the National Socialist Reich Association for Physical Exercise (NSRL). Boxing was organized separately in the NSRL specialist office 7.

After the Second World War, the heavy athletes organized from 1949 in West Germany in the German Athletes' Association (DAB) and in the Soviet Zone / GDR in the heavy athletics department of the German Sports Committee (DS). Until 1955, the DAB and the DS organized all-German championships in weightlifting, wrestling and judo.

Since the dissolution of the DS in the GDR in 1957 and the DAB in the FRG in 1972, there has been no sports association in Germany that specifically summarizes the difficult athletic sports and oversees them in terms of organization and sports policy.

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