Marc Huster
Marc Huster ( born July 1, 1970 in Altdöbern ) is a former German weightlifter and current sports commentator.
Sports career
Marc Huster grew up in Lübbenau and began in 1981 with the weight lifting. As he quickly noticed by his great talent, he was in 1983 delegated to the Children and Youth Sports School in Dresden. In the juniors soon the first successes came a. 1989 and 1990 won Huster good rankings in the Junior European Championships and World Junior Championships. In the senior he was able to continue his success. Marc Huster was during his ten year career several times world and European champion and won at the Olympic Games in 1996 and 2000, two Olympic silver medals. Both times he had here his eternal rival and friend Pyrros Dimas to defer. At the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 decided in this case be only against the Greeks around 160 g higher body weight after both had rendered the same result duel.
Marc Huster was a pronounced "show" talent. He has contributed much to the popularity of weight training in Germany in the 1990s through his friendly, friendly way. When he finally had to withdraw due to injury in 2002, he left a big gap. The clubs for whom he competed in the Bundesliga, were SV "Blue Swords " Meissen, AC Chemnitz and Riesa AC.
Personal
After graduation in 1990 Marc Huster first began to study medicine, but which he gave up a year later in favor of his sporting career. From 1991 to 1994 he took an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk. After ending his playing career, Marc Huster earned a degree in the Department of Sport, Event and Marketing Management at BA- University of Cooperative Education in Riesa with the completion of Diploma in Business Administration (BA). Since 1997, Huster works as a commentator for the TV channel euro sport where he mainly commented weightlifting transmissions. Since 2002 he has also worked for the Central German Broadcasting.
Statistics
International success / Mehrkampf
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Mi = Medium weight up to 75 kg or 77 kg of body weight, Ls = Light Heavyweight, to 82.5 kg, 83 kg, 85 kg, Ms = Medium weight up to 90 kg, 91 kg and 94 kg)
- 2000, Silver Medal, OS in Sydney, Ls, with 390 kg, behind Dimas, 390 kg and above Asanidse, 390 kg
Medals individual disciplines
( in the Olympics no World Championship medals were awarded more )
- World Championship gold medals in 1993, pushing, 210 kg - 1994, pushing, 210 kg - 1995, Snatch, 175 kg - 1998, pushing, 210 kg
- World Championship silver medals: 1994, rupturing, 172.5 kg - 1995, pushing, 210 kg
- World Cup bronze: 1991, Snatch, 160 kg - 1999, tearing, 177.5 kg
- EM Gold Medals: 1997, pushing, 207.5 kg - 1998, tearing, 172.5 kg - 1998, pushing, 210 kg - 1999, pushing, 215 kg
- EM- Silver Medals: 1997, Snatch, 170 kg - 1999, tearing, 172.5 kg
German Championships
World Records
(all made in the light heavyweight)
In pushing:
In the Olympic duel:
- 382.5 kg, 1994 in Istanbul
European record
In pushing:
- 215 kg in 1999 in A Coruña
Discography
Single: