Do Maung Nile

Tun Maung Nil (born September 30, 1931 in Mergui , Tanintharyi , Burma ( Myanmar )) is a Burmese weightlifter .

Career

Tun Maung Nil started lifting weights as a teenager. The sturdy athlete began his international career as a weightlifter at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki at a height of 1.62 meters . He came there with a featherweight three-way performance of 295 kg in 14th place.

In 1954 he won the Asian Games in Manila and then won the bronze medal at the World Featherweight Championships in Vienna with 330 kg in the Olympic three-way battle behind the two Soviet lifters Rafael Tschimischkian and Ivan Udodow . He was the first Burmese weightlifter to win a medal at a world championship.

At the 1955 World Cup in Munich, he was able to repeat this success. There he won a weight class higher, so in the lightweight with 355 kg behind Nikolai Kostylew from the Soviet Union and Said Khalifa Gouda from Egypt again a bronze medal.

Tun Maung Nil also showed a good performance in the lightweight at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956. He brought a total of 352.5 kg to high distance there. However, this performance only reached 8th place in Melbourne .

Tun Maung Nil was not lucky enough to take part in his third Olympic Games, namely in Rome in 1960 . He managed 117.5 kg in a lightweight two-armed push, but then had three unsuccessful attempts in two-armed tearing and no longer started to push with both arms. Ultimately, that's why he ended up in 28th place.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1952	14th	OS in Helsinki	feather	with 295 kg (90-87.5-117.5); Winner: Rafael Tschimischkian , USSR, 337.5 kg
1954	1.	Asia Games in Manila	feather	ahead of Rodrigo del Rosario, Philippines and Chay Weng Yew, Singapore
1954	3.	World Cup in Vienna	feather	with 330 kg (100-100-130), behind Rafael Tschmischkian, 350 kg and Iwan Udodow , 350 kg, both USSR
1955	3.	World Cup in Munich	Light	with 355 kg (110-105-140), behind Nikolai Kostylew , USSR, 382.5 kg and Said Khalifa Gouda , Egypt, 365 kg
1956	8th.	OS in Melbourne	Light	with 352.5 kg (110-105-137.5); Winner: Igor Rybak , 380 kg, ahead of Rafael Schabutinow , 372.5 kg, both USSR
1958	4th	Asia Games in Tokyo	Light	with 365 kg, behind Tan Howe Liang , Singapore, 375 kg, Kenji Ōnuma , Japan, 375 kg and Henrik Tamraz , Iran, 370 kg
1960	28.	OS in Rome	Light	with 117.5 kg (117.5-00-00); Winner: Viktor Buschujew , USSR, 397.5 kg

Explanations

• all competitions in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of two-armed pushing, snatching and pushing
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
• Feather weight, weight class up to 60 kg, lightweight, up to 67.5 kg body weight

literature

• Athletics magazine

Web links

• Tun Maung Nil in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Do Maung Nil at Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century