Matthias Steiner Athlete
Matthias Steiner (born August 25, 1982 in Vienna) is an Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. He is 183 cm tall. As a native Austrian, he competed for Austria internationally from 1998 to 2005, in European Championships, World Championships, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. From 2002 to 2005 he was four times Austrian National Champion in the +105 kg category, and holds Austrian records in the −105 kg and +105 kg categories. In 2005 Steiner left the Austrian weightlifting federation, and married a German woman. Although his wife died in a car accident, he continued his weightlifting career in Germany, eventually received German citizenship in early 2008, won overall silver at the 2008 European Championships, and the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
