Denys Hotfrid

Denys Hotfrid (Ukrainian Денис Готфрід; born February 5, 1975 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Soviet Union, now Russia) is a Ukrainian weightlifter. He was a multiple world and European champion and winner of a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in 1996.

Career

Denys Hotfrid, born in Russia, decided after the collapse of the Soviet Union to go to Ukraine at the start. He was a member of the army, had there but all freedoms for training.

His international career began in 1993 when he finished in 3rd place at the World Youth Championship in Cheb in the middle heavyweight with 357.5 kg ( 155 to 202.5 ). Another medal he won at the Junior European Championships in Warsaw in 1995 in the first heavyweight. He rose on this occasion in a duel to 395 kg ( 180-215 ). In 1994 and 1995 he also already at the Senior World Championships in Istanbul and Guangzhou (China) and took part there in each case in the first heavyweight with each 390 kg in single combat the 7th Place.

In 1996 Denys Hotfrid in the same weight class at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, where she won with 402.5 kg ( 187.5 to 215 ) in a duel behind Acacius Kakiaschwili, Greece, 420 kg ( 185-235 ) and Anatoli Chrapaty, Kazakhstan, 410 kg ( 187.5 to 222.5 ) the bronze medal.

In the course of his future career Denys Hotfrid won between 1997 and 2003 the world title twice and twice European champion in single combat. In 1997, he won the European Championship in Rijeka in the 2nd heavyweight 415 kg ( 185-230 ) before Ewgeni Schischliannikow, Russia, 415 kg and Victor Scherbatich, Latvia, 397.5 kg. This title he won in 1999 in A Coruña. He started in the heavyweight division, that's enough for a Gewichtsklassenneueinteilung by the International Weightlifting Federation since 1998 kg to 105 kg. The 1st and the 2nd heavy weight fell off it. He scored a capacity of 420 kg ( 192.5 to 227.5 ), with which he won ahead of Marius Jedra from Poland, 407.5 kg.

He was in Athens for the first time reached the world heavyweight champion at 430 kg ( 195-235 ) before Ewgeni Schischliannikow, 425 kg ( 190-235 ) 1999. In 2002, Denys Hotfrid in Warsaw again world champion in the heavyweight division, where he handed in a duel 420 kg ( 190-230 ) to win against Alan Zagaew from Bulgaria, 417.5 kg ( 185 to 232.5 ).

A black day caught Denys Hotfrid at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, where he competed as a favorite in the heavyweight division. After 190 kg in the snatch and jerk him underwent three failed attempts with 230 kg, with which he retired and remained unplaced.

His last start at an international championship he graduated in the 2003 World Cup in Vancouver. He managed there in the snatch 192.5 kg, but had to retire due to injury then from bumping and therefore remained unplaced again without duel performance.

International success

WM EM individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 1999/Reißen
  • World Championship silver medals: 1998/Reißen - 1999/Stoßen
  • World Cup bronze medals: 2002/Reißen - 2002/Stoßen - 2003/Reißen
  • European gold medals: 1997/Stoßen - 1999/Reißen - 1999/Stoßen
  • EM- Silver medals: 1997/Reißen - 2002/Reißen
  • EM bronze medals: 2002/Stoßen

Notes

  • All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
  • Medium weight, 1997-91 kg body weight,
  • 1 heavy weight until 1997-99 kg body weight,
  • 2 heavy weight until 1997-108 kg body weight,
  • Heavyweight, from 1998 kg to 105 kg body weight

Swell

  • Journal athletics,
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig
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