Ondrej Hekel (16 February 1944 – 23 July 2009) was a Czechoslovak male

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

, who competed in the 67.5 kg category and represented Czechoslovakia at international competitions. During his career, Ondrej Hekel was Czechoslovakia's best weightlifter. For 12 years in a row, he won a national title (first in the lightweight, later middleweight), and he was named Czechoslovakian lifter of the year on three occasions. Internationally, his only overall medal came at the 1971 European Championships, where he placed third. In 1972, he was close to the medals at the Olympics (doubling as the World Championships), placing 4th. But Hekel collected event medals in the snatch, winning twice at the Europeans and once at the World Championships (1971). He won the silver medal in the snatch at the

1969 World Weightlifting Championships The 1969 Men's World Weightlifting Championships were held in Warsaw, Poland from September 20 to September 28, 1969. There were 166 men from 37 nations in the competition. Medal summary Medal table Ranking by Big (Total result) medals Ran ...

lifting 130.0 kg.

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Zemřel Ondrej Hekel (Ondrej Hekel Died) at Vzpirani.cz
* 1944 births 2009 deaths Czechoslovak male weightlifters World Weightlifting Championships medalists Slovak male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Czechoslovakia Weightlifters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics {{Czechoslovakia-bio-stub