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On August 19, 2008, the last weightlifting competition at the Beijing Olympic Games, the men's weightlifting class of 105 kg or more, belonged to the 26-year-old German boy Matthias Steiner. He won the championship with a snatch of 203 kg, a deadlift of 258 kg and a total of 461 kg.
In the final deadlift, he managed to lift a weight that had never been completed before, and won the championship with a slight advantage of 1 kg.
After putting on the gold and jade gold medal, Steiner kissed the picture of his beloved wife affectionately, and his eyes were full of tears, "I dedicate the gold medal to my deceased wife Susan." ”
Throughout the Olympic games, Steiner took a picture of Susan with him and "competed with his wife."
Steiner kept holding a picture of Susan at the time of the award, wiping her tears from time to time
Let's review the game, and then let's talk about Steiner and his dead wife.
Matthias Steiner was not a favourite for the gold medal, his 203 kg of snatch set a personal best, but he was only 4th overall. By the time of the deadlift stage, the final result of the Russian Chigishev had been determined to be 210 kg in the snatch and 250 kg in the deadlift, at which point Steiner had only one last chance to lift 258 kg if he wanted to win the gold medal.
Steiner's second deadlift was 248 kilograms, the largest weight he had ever lifted in his entire career. Now it is almost impossible to add a full ten kilograms and have to be completed at once.
But Matthias Steiner lifted this weight like a divine help, which is one of the most legendary moments of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Matthias Steiner made a stunning move to win the last weightlifting gold medal at the Beijing Olympics
After winning the championship, Matthias Steiner did everything he could to release all his stress and roared in celebration. He was an ecstatic, 300-pound fat man (weighed 145.93 kilograms before the Beijing Olympics, the fourth heaviest weight among the 14 athletes).
Subjectively, I prefer to believe that his beloved deceased wife, Susan, has been giving him the most powerful motivation in his spirit to complete this earth-shattering move, so that Steiner, who was not originally a favorite to win the championship, won this gold medal.
In the absence of the biggest favourites to win the championship, both the snatch and the deadlift were completed with personal bests. A slim margin of 1 kg won the gold medal in the final kill
Originally an Austrian, Steiner was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 18, but he still insisted on lifting weights and competed in the 2004 Athens Olympics, finishing 7th. However, the Olidian media was very harsh on him, and in the face of this 7th, the newspaper directly commented, "For Austrian sports, Steiner is a dispensable athlete".
Also in the same year, he became acquainted with his future wife, Susan, a German.
Susan has always been Steiner's number one fan, watching weightlifting competitions on TV that year, asking for Steiner's emails through various means, and then the two of them contacted, met, interacted, and finally went to the marriage hall.
Steiner was only 23 years old.
At the Athens Olympics, 22-year-old Steiner competed in the sub-105 kg class
Steiner's career after the Athens Olympics has not been very smooth, the new manager of the Austrian national team is not optimistic about him, coupled with injuries, Steiner's state has fluctuated greatly. At the 2005 European Championships, Steiner made a serious mistake and still did not lift his weight after reading the meter time. This became the trigger for a later break with Austria, and the entire country's media blamed Steiner for deliberately passing the game.
Steiner was also completely disheartened, and after consulting with Susan, finally decided to become a German citizen.
This decision was extremely risky, as Steiner could not compete in any international competitions during the three-year period of the change of nationality. Coupled with the significant weight gain caused by diabetes since 2005, he can only participate in the 105 kg or above (the largest weight class for weightlifters), and the entire training plan needs to be reformulated.
Three years of inability to compete + repeated physical status + change of nationality to try to join the new national team, it is likely to end the entire career.
At this stage, his wife Susan has been his staunchest supporter. Susan did something at the time, she made a very detailed budget plan, the goal is to point to the Beijing Olympics three years later, outlining the couple's entire trip to Beijing, the budget costs needed, and how to save money.
At the same time, Susan also set a goal for Steiner, not only to go to Beijing, but also to win the championship.
This gave Steiner the greatest confidence.
Over the next few years, Steiner trained with the German head coach, competed in the club's amateur competitions, and then made money while doing commentary on television.
But with one year to go until the Beijing Olympics (July 16, 2007), tragedy struck. Susan suffered a serious car accident and died. At the end of her life, Susan said to Steiner, you can't give up, you must go to Beijing to get the gold medal! (This passage was touching, and Steiner later choked up every time he recalled in an interview.)
After a three-year suspension, Steiner was finally able to represent Germany in 2008. At the Beijing Invitational Tournament on January 23, he won the championship with 423 kilograms and successfully qualified for the Olympic Games.
On the day of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Steiner and Susan had planned to spend a long time together to watch the flames lit
This photo, Steiner has always been with him
To be sure, Steiner was 26 years old in 2008 and reached the peak of his career, but he was still not the biggest favorite to win the championship. A month before the Beijing Olympics, 30-year-old Iranian Hussein Rezazadeh, the 30-year-old world record holder in the 105 kg category, announced his direct retirement due to injury, so that his main challenges became Shchebati (the winner of the previous year's World Championships) and Chigishev (the three eventually won gold, silver and bronze medals).
I believe that in the whole process of winning the championship, the agreement with his deceased wife Susan many years ago became Steiner's strongest mental combat force - and weightlifting, which is a very test of the on-the-spot mentality, is undoubtedly like a dose of "doping".
"Susan, I did it!"
Szczebati, Chigishev and Steiner won gold, silver and bronze, and Steiner was the least favored of the pre-match forecast
Completing the final anti-heaven move, Steiner fell to his knees, roared angrily to the sky, and took out the picture of Susan in his pocket and kissed it continuously. At the award ceremony, he also took a photo and showed it to the world.
The power of love and faith.
Steiner kept wiping away tears.
As planned, Susan should be watching him win the championship offstage at this point.
Follow-up -
The Beijing Olympics became the pinnacle of Matthias Steiner, with the best of his career in the snatch, the deadlift and the overall result. Since then he has not won any other major international competition.
At the 2012 London Olympics, he was injured while trying to grab 196 kg and eventually withdrew. In 2013, the 30-year-old Steiner chose to retire.
At the London Olympics, Steiner made a mistake and retired from injury to defend his title
Two months after winning the Beijing Olympics, Steiner became acquainted with German television news anchor Bosmik and remarried in January 2010. It is also a new chapter in his life.
This is also a matter of congratulations.
Steiner and his second wife, Bosmik, were a full 13 years older than Steiner
In addition, Steiner is the image of a great white bear when lifting weights. But after retiring, he successfully lost weight, and the image of the whole person also underwent earth-shaking changes ↓↓ It can also be called a legend in the weight loss industry.
After winning the Olympic Championship, Steiner, who is 1 meter 83 tall, weighs 150+ kg and has a big white bear
After Steiner began to lose weight after retiring, he lost almost 30 kilograms of weight in the first three years
In total, Steiner lost almost 45 kilograms of weight, and his image changed dramatically