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Rudolf Vladimirovich Plyukfelder (Russian: Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфельдер, born 6 September 1928) is a retired Soviet weightlifter and weightlifting coach. As a competitor he won world titles in 1959 and 1961 and an Olympic gold medal in 1964. As a coach he prepared a series of Olympic champions including Aleksey Vakhonin, Vasily Alekseyev, David Rigert, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Voronin and Viktor Tregubov.[1]

Rudolf Plyukfelder

Plyukfelder at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born	6 September 1928 (1928-09-06) (age 94) Novoorlovka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	82.5 kg (182 lb)
Sport
Sport	Weightlifting
Club	Trud Shakhty
Medal record Representing the Soviet Union Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo -82.5 kg World Championships 1959 Warsaw -82.5 kg 1961 Vienna -82.5 kg 1963 Stockholm -82.5 kg 1964 Tokyo -82.5 kg

Plyukfelder was born in Ukraine to a German family. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, his father and older brother were executed. The rest of the family was sent to a labor camp in Siberia, where Plyukfelder started to work at a coal mine at the age of 14. As a hobby he tried track and field athletics and wrestling, in which he won the regional championships in 1948–49. He changed to weightlifting only in 1950 when he was already 22. Until 1962, when he moved to Rostov Oblast, he trained on his own, as there was no weightlifting coach in his area, yet he became the world's best light-heavyweight competitor, winning world titles in 1959 and 1961, European titles in 1959–61, and an Olympic gold in 1964. He also set eight official world records in 1969–1961: one in the press, five in the snatch, and two in the total.[2]

While competing, Plyukfelder coached some of his teammates, such as Aleksey Vakhonin whom he made an Olympic champion from scratch. He retired shortly after the 1964 Olympics and had a long and successful career as a coach in Shakhty, which he turned into a major Soviet weightlifting school.[1] In the early 1990s, due to a conflict with Vasily Alekseyev, he immigrated to Germany, where he has a large family of wife, three daughters and five grandchildren. He continues daily training with weights through his 90s, and won one masters world title in 1992, but decided not to compete again due to lack of interest in competitions. In 2000, aged 72 his results were as follows: squat – 160 kg, snatch – 100 kg, body weight – 93 kg. In 2018, aged 90, he routinely did 10 squat repetitions with 100 kg.[3][4]

Books

• Rudolf Plyukfelder (1966). Металл и люди. Moscow: Fizkultura i sport.
• Rudolf Plyukfelder (2009). Чужой среди своих. Moscow: Center of German Culture. ISBN 978-5-93227-013-4.

References

External links

• Rudolf Plyukfelder at Olympedia

На других языках

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- [en] Rudolf Plyukfelder

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[fr] Rudolf Plyukfelder

Rudolf Vladimirovitch Plyukfelder (en russe : Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфельдер, né le 6 septembre 1928) est un haltérophile et entraîneur d'haltérophilie soviétique. Il a remporté des titres mondiaux en 1959 et 1961 et une médaille d'or olympique en 1964. En tant qu'entraîneur, il a préparé une série de champions olympiques dont Aleksey Vakhonin, Vasily Alekseyev, David Rigert, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Voronin et Viktor Tregubov [1].

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[it] Rudol'f Pljukfel'der

Rudol'f Vladimirovič Pljukfel'der (in russo: Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфельдер?; Novoorlivka, 6 settembre 1928) è un ex sollevatore sovietico. Da atleta è stato campione olimpico, mondiale ed europeo nella categoria dei pesi massimi leggeri (fino a 82,5 kg.).

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[ru] Плюкфельдер, Рудольф Владимирович

Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфе́льдер (р. 6 сентября 1928 (1928-09-06), Новоорловка, Донецкая губерния, Украинская ССР, СССР) — советский тяжелоатлет, заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1962), заслуженный тренер СССР (1965). Чемпион Олимпийских игр (1964), неоднократный чемпион мира, Европы, СССР в среднем весе.

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