Stanley Kratkowski

Stanley Joseph Kratkowski (born August 20, 1912 in Poland , † August 25, 1962 in Mobile , Alabama ) was an American weightlifter .

Career

Stanley Kratkowski emigrated with his parents from Poland to the United States after the First World War . He settled in Detroit , where he joined the German American Athletic Club and became a weightlifter. He later moved to the Michigan Alkali Club Detroit .

In 1932 he was American middleweight champion (AAU champion) with 307.5 kg in the Olympic three-way fight . He then started at the Summer Olympics this year in Los Angeles and finished there in the middleweight division with 305 kg, the good 5th place. The Olympic champion there was the German Rudolf Ismayr , who in the following period strongly supported the American weightlifters with training tips and plans and thus earned great merit in the rapid development of the American weightlifters. In 1934, 1935 and 1936 he was each AAU champion. 1934 and 1935 in the pentathlon and 1936 in the Olympic three-way fight. In 1934 he also set a new world record in one-armed swinging right with 81 kg. This exercise was performed with a dumbell and was practiced almost exclusively in North America.

1936 came Stanley Kratkowski for his second use at the Olympic Games. He started in Berlin in the light heavyweight division . He scored 337.5 kg (95-107.5-135) in the Olympic three-way fight and came back to 5th place.

He was not at the start at the World Weightlifting Championships in Paris in 1937 and in Vienna in 1938 . But he became AAU champion again in 1938 and defeated the young John Davis (weightlifter) in the light heavyweight division , who would later become one of the greatest weightlifters of all time, with 365 kg: 362.5 kg. In June 1938 Stan Kratkowski was used in two international matches against Germany and scored 367.5 kg each in Baltimore and New York in the light heavyweight division , clearly defeating Anton Gietl from Munich , who reached 357.5 kg and 340 kg respectively . The international fights themselves were each won by Germany.

After that he no longer appeared as a weightlifter. Kratkowski died at the age of 50.

successes

year	space	competition	Competition type	Weight class	Results
1932	1.	AAU championships	OD	medium	with 307.5 kg
1932	5.	OS in Los Angeles	OD	medium	with 305 kg (82.5-102.5-120); Winner: Rudolf Ismayr , Germany, 345 kg (100-105-137.5)
1933	10.	AAU championships	OD	medium	after 85 kg in two-armed pushing he had three failed attempts in two-armed tearing; Winner: Walter Zagurski, 315 kg
1934	1.	AAU championships	FK	medium	with 472.5 kg, before Walter Zagurski, 462.5 kg
1935	1.	AAU championships	FK	medium	with 497.5 kg (80-92.5-82.5-107.5-135), before Walter Good, 450 kg
1936	1.	AAU championships	OD	medium	with 340 kg (97.5-105-137.5), before Walter Good, 330 kg
1936	5.	OS in Berlin	OD	Semi-difficult	with 337.5 kg (95-107.5-135); Winner: Louis Hostin , France , 372.5 kg
1938	1.	AAU championships	OD	Semi-difficult	with 365 kg (102.5-112.5-150), before John Davis, 362.5 (107.5-112.5-142.5)

Explanations

• OD = Olympic three-way fight, consisting of two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing
• FK = pentathlon, consisting of one-armed snatching and pushing and two-armed pushing, snatching and pushing
• Middle weight, weight class up to 75 kg, light heavy weight, up to 82.5 kg body weight
• OS = Olympic Games
• from 1923 to 1936 there were no world championships. The Olympic champions were allowed to carry the title of world champion

literature

• Professional magazines athletics and strength training

Web links

• Stanley Kratkowski in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Stanley Kratkowski at Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century