Werner Schraut

Werner Schraut (born April 25, 1951 in Groß-Umstadt (Hesse); † September 22, 2018 in Groß-Umstadt ) was a German weightlifter .

Career

Werner Schraut started lifting weights at AV Vorwärts Groß-Zimmer at an early age. He remained loyal to this club throughout his career. At a height of 1.60 meters, he always started as an adult in the lightweight category, the weight class up to 67.5 kg body weight.

1966 and 1967 he was each German youth champion. After two weaker years in 1968 and 1969, he was German junior champion in the lightweight with 330 kg in the Olympic three-way battle and for the first time also German champion of the senior featherweight with 320 kg. In 1971 he was again German junior champion in the lightweight with 350 kg in the Olympic three-way fight and took 4th place in this weight class among the seniors with 365 kg.

At the German senior championship in 1972, Werner Schraut took second place in the lightweight with 407.5 kg behind Pietro Massalla from AC Mutterstadt , who achieved the same performance but was a little lighter than him. He was then used in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich in the lightweight, where he scored 402.5 kg (127.5-125-150). With this achievement he came in 12th place.

In 1973 he did not contest any competitions, but came back to competition in 1974. He was the German lightweight champion with 280 kg in a duel, leaving Ewald Spitz from Mannheim with 265 kg and Karl-Heinz Radschinsky from Neumarkt with 255 kg clearly behind. He won this title in 1975 and achieved 282.5 kg in a duel. At the World and European Championships in Moscow in 1975 he again reached 282.5 kg and thus took 12th place in the World Championship and 9th place in the European Championship.

In 1976 Werner Schraut became German champion for the fourth time. He increased in the lightweight in a duel to 290 kg (132.5-157.5), which he stayed ahead of Karl-Heinz Radschinsky , who achieved 275 kg (122.5-152.5). At the European Championships this year in Berlin (East) he managed to increase to 295 kg (127.5-167.5), which put him in 4th place. Only Zbigniew Kaczmarek , Poland , 305 kg, Jan Lostowski, Poland, 302.5 kg and Sergei Pewzner, USSR , 297.5 kg, placed in front of him. In Montreal he then took part in the Olympic Games for the second time. There he achieved 290 kg (127.5-162.5) in a duel and thus reached 7th place. He was not far from the performances of Olympic champion Petro Korol , USSR, 305 kg, and silver medalist Daniel Senet , France , 300 kg.

At the World and European Championships in 1977 in Stuttgart , Werner Schraut achieved 292.5 kg (132.5-160) and thus finished in the world championship standings behind Roberto Urrutia , Cuba , 315 kg (142.5-172.5), Sergei Pewzner , 302.5 kg (130-172.5) and Zbigniew Kaczmarek , 297.5 kg (127.5-170) took 4th place and won the bronze medal in the European Championship . In the snatch he won an EM silver and a World Cup bronze medal with the 132.5 kg he achieved.

In 1979 Werner Schraut appeared well prepared for the German championship and won the German championship again with 295 kg (130-165). At the subsequent European Championships in Havířov , he scored 130 kg in snatch, but missed his initial load three times in the jerk and thus remained unplaced in the duel. After this failure Werner Schraut resigned from the international weightlifting stage, but he started for his club, the AV “Vorwärts” 05 Groß -zimmer eV, in the 2nd German Bundesliga for a few more years.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1967	5.	Danube Cup in Pressburg	Bantam	with 270 kg; Winner: Atanas Kirow , Bulgaria , 312.5 kg ahead of Sandor Holzreiter , Hungary , 310 kg
1970	4th	Danube Cup in Sofia	feather	with 320 kg, behind Janos Benedek , Hungary , 365 kg, Badescu, Romania , 345 kg u. Hellebrand, CSSR , 320 kg
1972	8th.	Pre-Olympic tournament in Ulm	Light	with 385 kg; Winner: Petro Korol , USSR , 445 kg before Dehnavi, Iran, 415 kg
1972	5.	Danube Cup in Budapest	Light	with 387.5 kg; Winner: Ambrozi, Hungary, 420 kg
1972	12.	OS in Munich	Light	with 402.5 kg (127.5-125-150); Winner: Mucharbi Kirschinow , USSR, 460 kg
1974	2.	Baltic Cup in Växjö / Sweden	Light	with 267.5 kg; Winner: Petro Korol , 295 kg
1975	3.	Danube Cup in Donaueschingen	Light	with 275 kg, behind Drska, CSSR, 282.5 kg u. Miut, Romania , 282.5 kg
1975	12.	WM + EM (9th) in Moscow	Light	with 282.5 kg; Winner: Petro Korol , 312.5 kg, ahead of Zbigniew Kaczmarek , Poland , 312.5 kg
1976	1.	EC cup tournament in Brussels	Light	with 295 kg (132.5-162.5), ahead of Roland Chavigny, France , 285 kg
1976	4th	EM in Berlin (East)	Light	with 295 kg (127.5-167.5), behind Zbigniew Kaczmarek , 305 kg (135-170), Jan Lostowski, Poland, 302.5 kg (132.5-170) and Sergei Pewzner , USSR, 297.5 kg (125-172.5)
1976	7th	OS in Montreal	Light	with 290 kg (127.5-162.5); Winner: Petro Korol , 305 kg (135-170) ahead of Daniel Senet , France, 300 kg (135-165)
1977	1.	Blue Swords Cup in Meissen	Light	with 290 kg (130-160), before Gonzalez, Cuba, 275 kg a. Günter Ambraß , GDR , 270 kg
1977	1.	EC cup tournament in Dunstable	Light	with 280 kg (130-150), off Winterbourne, Great Britain , 262.5 kg
1977	4th	WM + EM (3rd) in Stuttgart	Light	with 292.5 kg (132.5-160); behind Roberto Urrutia , Cuba , 315 kg (142.5-172.5), Sergei Pewzner , 302.5 kg (130-172.5) and Zbigniew Kaczmarek , 297.5 kg (127.5-170)
1978	4th	Baltic Cup in Wolfsburg	Light	at 282.5 kg (127.5-155); Winner: Günter Ambraß, 295 kg (130-165)
1978	unpl.	EM in Havířov	Light	after 130 kg in snatch, three failed attempts in pushing; Winner: Janko Russew , Bulgaria , 312.5 kg (137.5-175) ahead of Ion Buta, Romania, 305 kg (135-170)

WM + EM individual medals

• World Cup bronze medal: 1977 / tear
• EM silver medal: 1977 / tear

German championships

year	space	Age group	Weight class	Result
1966	1.	Youth A	up to 55 kg body weight	with 252.5 kg
1967	1.	Youth A	up to 60 kg body weight	with 262.5 kg
1970	1.	Juniors	Light	with 330 kg
1970	1.	Seniors	feather	with 320 kg, before Winfried Dunkel, Trier , 307.5 kg
1971	1.	Juniors	Light	with 350 kg, in front of Karl-Heinz Radschinsky , Neumarkt, 320 kg
1971	4th	Seniors	Light	with 365 kg, behind Dieter Rauscher , Mutterstadt , 410 kg, Siegfried Rosengart, Gelsenkirchen , 375 kg u. Rolf Feser, Mannheim , 375 kg
1972	2.	Seniors	Light	with 407.5 kg, behind Pietro Massalla , Mutterstadt, 407.5 kg, in front of Dieter Rauscher, Mutterstadt, 397.5 kg
1974	1.	Seniors	Light	with 280 kg, before Ewald Spitz, Mannheim, 265 kg a. Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, 255 kg
1975	1.	Seniors	Light	with 282.5 kg, before Ewald Spitz, 272.5 kg a. Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, 267.5 kg
1976	1.	Seniors	Light	with 290 kg (132.5-157.5), in front of Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, 275 kg (122.5-152.5)
1978	1.	Seniors	Light	with 295 kg (130-165), before Karl-Heinz Radschinsky, 287.5 kg (127.5-157.5)

Explanations

• all competitions up to 1972 in the Olympic three-way fight (pushing, tearing and pushing), from 1973 in single combat (pulling and pushing),
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship,
• Bantam weight, back then up to 56 kg, feather weight, up to 60 kg and lightweight up to 67.5 kg body weight,
• KG = body weight

swell

• Athletics magazine
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web link

• Werner Schraut in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (here with wrong date of birth)

Individual evidence

1. ^ AV “Vorwärts” 05 Groß-Zimmer eV , website of the athletes' club