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Matthias Steiner

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Date of birth : 08/25/1982
City of birth : Vienna, Austria

Matthias Steiner is the 2008 Olympic Champion in weightlifting, in the Super Heavyweight category. Steiner hails from Obersulz, Lower Austria. He was trained as a plumber. Steiner started weightlifting in 1995, and competed internationally for Austria from 1998 to 2005. In 2005, he married a German woman, and relocated to Germany. Since that time, Steiner trains at the German Federal Weightlifting Center in Leimen, and is coached by Olympic bronze medalist Frank Mantek. Although Steiner's wife died in a car accident, he continued his weightlifting career in Germany, and won the gold medal in the +105 kg category at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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