Rudolf Ismayr

Rudolf Ismayr ( born October 14, 1908 in Landshut, † 9 May 1998 in Marquartstein ) was a German weightlifter. It was 1932 Olympic champion at middleweight.

Life

Ismayr grew up in Landshut and Deggendorf, was active as a youth swimming, athletics, gymnastics, did not occur until the age of 16 in 1924 at the Deggendorf TV and started there with boxing and weightlifting. Soon the then Reich coach Josef Zimmermann recognized his extraordinary talent for weightlifting and took him under his wing. After graduation in 1928 Ismayr went to Munich to study, first came the 1860 and then the Roland SC Munich, the club carpenter, at. From 1930 he increased through intensive training its services by leaps and bounds and reached the German and international top class in which he remained until the beginning of World War II. Success joined the ranks of success. At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932, he became friends with the American weightlifters, especially the later Olympic champion Anthony Terlazzo and supported them from then on, with valuable training notes. In Germany he won the 1934 highly talented Bamberger Josef Manger to Freising, where he had become sedentary and at SpVgg Freising built a weightlifter Department. He Manger within a few months to world-class weightlifter, Olympic champion and world and European champions.

In 1936, he spoke the Olympic oath at the Olympic Games in Berlin.

Professionally, he was employed as a qualified lawyer in the Bavarian civil service. From 1940 to 1945 he made ​​war service and was, until the fall of 1946 in British captivity. Then again in government service, he was active as a fighter for peace and nuclear weapons opponents and thus made ​​himself unpopular with the politicians in Bonn and Munich. Later he became a member of the DKP.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Mi = middleweight, HS = Half Heavyweight, OD = Olympic triathlon consisting of bd. Press, vol. Tearing and bd. Pushing, VK, = four-way battle consisting of OD and one-arm tearing, FK = pentathlon, consisting of OD and one-arm snatch and one-arm bumping )

Countries fighting

Success in the German Championships

World Records

In addition Ismayr still scored two Olympic records and 19 German records.