Willi Kolb

Willi Kolb (born February 18, 1934 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ) is a former German weightlifter.

Career

As a teenager, Willi Kolb was initially a swimmer at SV Schwäbisch Gmünd before he switched to weightlifting at Normannia Gmünd , encouraged by his brother . Already in 1950 and 1951 he was second and third winner in the weight classes up to 50 kg and 60 kg body weight at the German youth championships. After Normannia Gmünd dissolved his heavy athletics department, he switched to TV Wetzgauand then to SG Weilimdorf, a Stuttgart club. In 1953 he started for the first time in the German championship of the active and in 1956 he won his first German championship title in the lightweight. Willi Kolb's specialty was pressing, in which he set several German records. However, it stagnated between 1956 and 1960 at 340 to 350 kg, which was considered a great hope in the German Athletes Association, so that major international successes failed to materialize. In the elimination for the all-German Olympic team in 1960, he failed to Werner Dittrich , from Zittau with 347.5: 355 kg.

Willi Kolb was a dairy foreman at the dairy farm in Stuttgart.

International championships

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, Mi = middleweight)

• 1955, 14th place ( 10th place ), WM + EM in Munich , Le, with 325 kg, winner: Nikolai Kostylew , USSR , 382.5 kg, ahead of Gouda, Egypt , 365 kg;
• 1956, 12th place , OS in Melbourne , Le , with 340 kg, winner: Igor Rybak , USSR, 380 kg, ahead of Rafael Chabudtinow , USSR, 372.5 kg;
• 1958, 8th place ( 7th place ), WM + EM in Stockholm, Le, with 325 kg, winner: Viktor Buschujew , USSR, 390 kg ahead of Luciano de Genova , Italy , 362.5 kg;
• 1959, 11th place ( 9th place ), WM + EM in Warsaw , Le, with 340 kg, winner: Viktor Buschujew , USSR, 385 kg, ahead of Akop Faradschian, USSR, 370 kg

German championships

• 1953, 7th place , Fe, with 257.5 kg;
• 1954, 4th place , Le, with 312.5 kg, behind Oswald Junkes , Trier , 325 kg, Hans Neuhaus, Essen , 322.5 kg and Jakob Weil, Mainz , 317.5 kg;
• 1955, 2nd place , Le, with 332.5 kg, behind Junkes, 332.5 kg and in front of Neuhaus, 330 kg;
• 1956, 1st place , Le, with 347.5 kg, ahead of Roland Lortz , Groß-Zimmer , 340 kg and Weil, 330 kg;
• 1957, 1st place , Le, with 340 kg, ahead of Weil, 335 kg and Junkes, 325 kg;
• 1958, 1st place , Le, with 347.5 kg, ahead of Weil, 332.5 kg and Manfred Magin, Mutterstadt, 320 kg;
• 1959, 1st place , Le, with 347.5 kg, ahead of Weil, 335 kg and Karl Stohner , Mutterstadt , 332.5 kg;
• 1960, 3rd place , Le, with 340 kg, behind Stohner, 345 kg and Alfred Kornprobst , Nuremberg , 340 kg

German records

when pressing with both arms:

• 107.5 kg, 1955, Le,
• 110 kg, 1956, Le,
• 115 kg, 1957, Le,
• 117.5 kg, 1957, Le,
• 120 kg, 1958, Le,
• 122.5 kg, 1958, Wed,
• 122.5 kg, 1959, Le

in the Olympic three-way battle:

• 350 kg, 1958, Le
• 352.5 kg, 1958, Le

literature

• Lightweight scene dominated nationwide , Gmünder Tagespost , December 5, 2008
• "Athletik" trade journal from 1950 to 1960

Web links

• Willi Kolb in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Article about Willi Kolb in the Gmünder Tagespost