Josef Straßberger

Josef Straßberger was a German weightlifter, born in 1894 in Kolbermoor in Bavaria, who competed at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games. At the 1928 Games in Amsterdam he won the gold medal in the heavyweight division, and four years later in Los Angeles he took the bronze medal in the same division, giving him two Olympic medals across two Games. He died in Munich in 1950 at the age of 56. Straßberger belongs to the generation of strength athletes who competed when Olympic weightlifting was dominated by European lifters, and his heavyweight gold made him one of Germany's early champions in the sport. The reference listing for him points to the Top Olympic Lifters of the 20th Century compilation, which ranks the leading Olympic weightlifters of that century.