Ingo Steinhöfel
Appearance
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Born | 29 May 1967 | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Olympic weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | 1988 silver medal | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ingo Steinhöfel (born 29 May 1967 in Plauen, Saxony, East Germany), is a former German weightlifter who competed at five Olympics from 1988 to 2004. He won a silver medal in the middleweight class at the 1988 Olympics.
He is, jointly with fellow (East) German Ronny Weller, the second weightlifter to compete at five Olympics. The first was Hungarian Imre Földi from 1960 to 1976.
At the world championships, he came 3rd in the 1987 middleweight class (345.0 kg), 3rd in the 1989 light-heavyweight class (377.5 kg) and 2nd in the 1994 middleweight class (362.5 kg).
At the European championships, he came 3rd in the 1989 light-heavyweight class (377.5 kg); 2nd in the 1997 middleweight class (350.0 kg).
See also
References
- "Steinhöfel Ingo (SAS)". iat.uni-leipzig.de. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- "Ingo Steinhöfel". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2009. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
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- 1967 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Plauen
- German male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for East Germany
- East German male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters for Germany
- Olympic silver medalists for East Germany
- Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- People from Bezirk Karl-Marx-Stadt
- German Olympic medalist stubs
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