Without Jürgen for EM!
My EM preparation, planned by my coach Juergen Wunderlich every detail was optimal. All competitions in advance of the EM I completed with increasing power and without injury. According confident I grabbed departure morning, the last Utenslien than me Jürgen, who had been in spite of great back problems until the last day with me and had watched each session exceeded my development informed by telephone that he accompany me, contrary to expectations could. "You're in good shape, you know what you do and what matters. This goes the same way. Just set our schedule around. "
The day before traveling Dirk and I so on without Jürgen and Michael spent the night in the vicinity of the venue in wonderful Spitz Hotel to concentrate in peace and without arrival stress on the next day.
In retrospect, I have to Linz as "The perfect European" call. None of my previous championship was down to the smallest detail is excellent, so professional and so lovingly organized as Linz registration, warm-up room, stage, trophies, professional photographers, CDs with pictures of all athletes , Organisation - Linz sets the standard for all international Masters Weightlifting Championships the future.
Gudrun Schmidberger, the reigning world champion was, unexpectedly, moved up as well as defending champion Ute secret in the 58 kg category, so that Beverley Pattinson, as English champion with good performances at the British Championships had attracted attention, most important competitor in my weight class to 53 kg was. provide
Without me having to get body weight, I got in the race tomorrow after copious breakfast with 51.6 kg of the scale. d. 200 g heavier than Beverly, so that they had equal power with a slight advantage.
How accurate Jürgen had estimated the number of participants and the required level of performance was in the first discipline, the snatch:
While Beverly with 38kg and (after a failed attempt) with 40 kg, opened in the third round of the contest, I could kg to 42kg and 44 Finally, in a but fighting to improve my personal best valid attempt to confirm 46 kg, the good performances in the run, was already at half-time 6 kg with solid front and was able to start without any excitement in the second discipline.
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| Viola Lauber, weight lifting, 3 Attempt, tearing, 46 kg, EM 2010 |
Beverley was its reputation as a shock specialist just, showed a strong race and placed first good 58 kg and 61 kg kg before at last to fail in your attempt at a new British record of 63. After 60 kg and 62 kg I was able to improve my personal best and my German record finally kg to 64, so that I could finally decide the ranking with 8 kg of Beverly Diffenrenz Pattinson.
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| Viola Lauber, weight lifting, 3 Attempt to put, 64 kg, EM 2010 |
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| Viola Lauber and Beverley Pattinson, weight lifting, EM 2010 |
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