Josef Straßberger (August 20, 1894 – October 10, 1950) was a German

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

who competed at the

1928 Events January * January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. * January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris B ...

and

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...

. He won the gold medal in the heavyweight division in

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and the bronze medal in the same division in

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. He was born in

Kolbermoor Kolbermoor is a town in the district of Rosenheim, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated 5 km west of Rosenheim on the river Mangfall. In 1859 Kolbermoor railway stop was built for the new Bavarian Maximilian's Railway. Kolbermoor became ...

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

and died in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

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Josef Strassberger on Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century
1894 births 1950 deaths People from Kolbermoor Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria German male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Germany Olympic gold medalists for Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Weightlifters at the 1928 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1932 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from the Kingdom of Bavaria 20th-century German sportsmen {{Germany-weightlifting-bio-stub