Rudolf Plyukfelder
Rudolf Vladimirovich Plukfelder, actually Rudolf Pflugfelder (Russian Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфельдер; born September 6, 1928 in Novo- Orlowka, Donetsk Oblast ) is a former Soviet weightlifter.
Career
Rudolf Plukfelder, otherwise known as plow fields, is of German descent and spent his childhood in his birthplace. After the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, he was deported with his family to Siberia. In this his father and a brother died, who were shot by Stalin's henchmen came. Rudolf came to Kisseljowsk in Western Siberia and worked there from the age of 14 in a mine until 1962 underground. In his spare time he began to drive on sports, athletics first, then rings. At 22 he began weightlifting. He trained in Kiselewsk without a coach. In the course of time, in Kiselewsk an excellent weightlifting team, which was coached by Rudolf and in the future multiple world champion Alexei Wachonin was the most famous athlete. Later, Rudolf moved with his family to Schachty in Rostov-on- Don. In 1956 he reached the top of the Soviet weightlifter, when he finished in the Völkerspartakiade with 417.5 kg, third place in the Light Heavyweight ( class to 82.5 kg of body weight). In 1958 he became Soviet champion for the first time. For international assignments he first came in 1959, because even the doyen Trofim Lomakin it was preferred in 1957 and 1958. By 1964, Rudolf Plukfelder was then in the Soviet national team. The Olympic gold medal in 1964 in Tokyo at the age of 36 years was his greatest success.
After ending his career as a weightlifter Rudolf Plukfelder formed in Schachty as coach several weight lifters to Olympic medalists, World and European champions. May be mentioned here David Rigert, Gennady Bessonov, Nikolai Kolesnikov and Viktor Tregubow. Although Rudolf Plukfelder had rendered great service to the Soviet and Russian weightlifting without doubt him more and more billets were from people who were envious of his success he obviously thrown between his legs. Therefore he emigrated with his family to Germany, and now for years has lived near Kassel.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = Light heavyweight)
USSR Championships
World Records
(all made in the light heavyweight)
In the press:
In the snatch:
In Olympic triathlon:
- 452.5 kg, 1958 in Rostov,
- 455 kg, 1959 in Ufa,
- 457.5 kg, 1959 in Warsaw,
- 462.5 kg, 1961 in Dnipropetrovsk.