Karl Hipfinger

Karl Hipfinger ( born October 28, 1905 in Vienna, † 20 April 1984) was an Austrian weightlifter. He was European champion in Vienna in 1929 and winner of a bronze medal at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, each at middleweight.

Career

Karl Hipfinger, a Viennese policeman, belonged since 1926 to the best Austrian weightlifters. This year, he was for the first time Austrian champion at middleweight. He repeated this success in the years 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932. In 1927 he also world records. He scored in bumping beidarmigen middleweight 135 kg and 140.5 kg. In the Olympic triathlon he scored 330 kg, which was also the world record in 1927. However, he could not achieve any success in 1926 and 1927, nor to international championships, because in those years no such were organized. Karl Hipfinger initially belonged to the athletes club Hercules Vienna and moved in 1928 to Vienna Police SV.

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, he joined as a co-favorite to accordingly. He was there but did not finish the race due to an injury and was unplaced.

In 1929, he scored the first major success in an international championship in his hometown of Vienna. He was 325 kg (90 - 102.5 to 132.5 ) in the Olympic triathlon new European Champion before the two German Willi pure Frank and Willi Hoffmann. In November 1929, Karl Hipfinger scored in Vienna 167.5 kg in beidarmigen thrusting after unfreiem converting ( 2 tempi ):

At the European Championships 1930 in Munich, he was not in good shape and covered with 305 kg (90 - 92.5 to 132.5 ) Middleweight only the third place behind the Plauen Olympic champion from 1928 Kurt Helbig, who scored 332.5 kg and the Olympic champion from 1924 Carlo Galimberti of Italy, who came to EUR 322.5 kg.

In 1932 Karl Hipfinger started in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He was there in very good shape and scored in Olympic triathlon with 337.5 kg ( 90 to 107.5 - 140), a personal best, but the behind Rudolf Ismayr from Germany, 345 kg and Carlo Galimberti, 340 kg, only the third enough space. After all, he won so a bronze medal.

Another medal winning Karl Hipfinger at the European Championships 1934, held in Turin. He scored in the Middle Weight 330 kg (90 - 102.5 to 137.5 ), which was behind Ismayr, who scored 347.5 and his compatriot Heitzmann, who was 332.5 kg.

At no medal, it was enough for Karl Hipfinger at the European Championships 1935 in Paris. He scored 330 kg (90 - 102.5 to 137.5 ), although the same result as the bronze medalist Lepreux from France, but came because of its heavier body weight only on the 4th Place.

In the Austrian qualification for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Karl Hipfinger could not prevail against his Viennese weightlifter colleague Hans Walla and Anton Hangel and therefore was not nominated.

The special exercise of Karl Hipfinger was the beidarmige thrusting. In this discipline, he set several world records. Its weakness, however, was the beidarmige Press. In this exercise, he was against its major competitors Ismayr Rudolf and Carlo Galimberti already mostly at 15 kg in the residue. Although he regularly showed the best performance of all competitors in the beidarmigen put, he could usually not able to make up the shortfall from the beidarmigen Press all.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European, OD = Olympic powerlifting, Mi = middleweight, then up to 75 kg body weight)

Austrian Championships

Karl Hipfinger was in the years 1926, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932 Austrian champion at middleweight.

World Records

Swell

• Journal athletics, numbers: 40/1929, 49/1930, 31/ 1932 46/1934 and 45/1935,
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