Adolf Wagner (weightlifter)
Adolf Wagner ( * June 27, 1911; † 9 April 1984) was a German weightlifter.
Career
As a young man, Adolf Wagner came in the late 1920s in Essen for weightlifting. He joined the Food VKSA 88, where his idol Charles Bierwirth raised on. In 1934 he started for the first time in German and European Championships. By 1939, he was one of the top international lifters the middleweight class. In 1936, he won an Olympic medal, and in 1938 he became world champion. 1947, barely released from captivity, he was back at the bar and managed after some time amazing 372.5 kg in the Olympic triathlon, so he hired the German record in the OD of Rudolf Ismayr. His attempt to qualify again for 1952 Olympic Games but failed. He, too, had to pay tribute to the age. In 1954, he was national coach of the German weightlifter and had thus taken on a very difficult job. The German weightlifters had at that time completely lost touch with the world leaders as a result of 12 years of abstinence from 1939 to 1951. It was only gradually improving. Adolf Wagner could contribute only slightly greater successes came only one, as the mid-1960s younger coaches like Joseph Quick, the modern means anwandten, took the initiative
Children: Paul Adolf Wagner, later German champion in the 100 -meter sprint (season ) and Sprint 's national coach
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European, OD = Olympic powerlifting, FK = pentathlon, Mi = middleweight)