Willi Reinfrank

Willi Reinfrank (born May 30, 1903 in Mannheim , † 1943 near Stalingrad ) was a German weightlifter.

Career

Willi Reinfrank grew up in Mannheim and turned to heavy athletics as a teenager. He practiced lawn strength sports , wrestling and weightlifting . At the age of 17, he switched to weightlifting. In 1922 he was able to place himself among the winners at German championships for the first time. In 1924, when the Germans were still excluded from the Olympic Games, he became European lightweight champion in Neunkirchen (Saar) . With the performance he achieved, he would also have become Olympic champion in Paris . From 1925 to 1927 there were no international championships, so Willi Reinfrank was only able to take part in one again in 1928, at a time when he had already passed the zenith of his performance. In 1931 he ended his career as a weightlifter.

Willi Reinfrank was a trained mechanic who had worked his way up to an auctioneer. In January 1943 he fell near Stalingrad .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, Mi = middleweight, OD = Olympic three-way fight, consisting of two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing, FK = pentathlon, consisting of OD + one-armed tearing and one-armed pushing)

• 1924, 1st place , EM in Neunkirchen (Saar) , Le, FK, with 445 kg, ahead of N. Weber, Germany , 402.5 kg and O. Erlenmeyer, Germany, 372.5 kg;
• 1928, 5th place , OS in Amsterdam , Le, OD, with 295 kg, behind Kurt Helbig , Germany, 322.5 kg, Hans Haas , Austria , 322.5 kg and A. Aeschmann, Switzerland , 297.5 kg;
• 1929, 2nd place , EM in Vienna , Wed, OD, with 322.5 kg, behind Karl Hipfinger , Austria, 325 kg and in front of Willi Hoffmann, Germany, 305 kg;
• 1930, 4th place , EM in Munich , Wed, OD, with 305 kg, behind Helbig, 337.5 kg, Carlo Galimberti , Italy , 322.5 kg and Hipfinger, 305 kg

German championships

• 1922, 3rd place, Fe, FK, with 395 kg, behind Andreas Stadler , Vienna , 397.5 kg and Eugen Wiedmann , Stuttgart , 395 kg;
• 1923, 1st place, Le, FK, öwith 412.5 kg, ahead of Ruttmann, Nuremberg , 410 kg and Willi Stephan, Magdeburg , 392.5 kg;
• 1924, 1st place, Le, FK, with 462.5 kg, in front of Stephan, 415 kg and P. Berger, Feuerbach , 410 kg;
• 1925, 1st place, Le, FK, with 465 kg, ahead of Kurt Helbig , Plauen , 452.5 kg and Stephan, 432.5 kg;
• 1926, 1st place, Le, FK, with 455 kg, ahead of Hans Haas , Vienna, 452.5 kg and Helbig, 445 kg;
• 1927, 1st place, Le, OD, with 305 kg, before Helbig, 300 kg and Stephan, 285 kg;
• 1929, 1st place, Wed, FK, with 470 kg, ahead of Willi Hoffmann, Magdeburg, 457.5 kg and Dominikus Huttner, Munich , 455 kg;
• 1931, 3rd place, Wed, OD, with 317.5 kg, behind Rudolf Ismayr , Munich , 340 kg and Hoffmann, 317.5 kg

World records

(all lightweight, up to 67.5 kg body weight, set up)

in two-armed tearing:

• 100 kg, 1926 in Mannheim

in two-armed thrusting:

• 123 kg, 1924 in Bruchsal ,
• 123.5 kg, 1925 in Pirmasens ,
• 125 kg, 1925 in Stuttgart,
• 133 kg, 1927 in Waiblingen

in the Olympic three-way battle:

• 290 kg, 1924 in Neunkirchen,
• 302.5 kg, born in Mannheim in 1924,
• 305 kg, 1926 in Nuremberg,
• 312.5 kg, 1926 in Vienna

Web links

• Willi Reinfrank in Top Lifters of the 20th Century