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| show-medals = y }} Matthias Steiner (born 25 August 1982 in Vienna) is a retired Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. 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. ==Early and personal life== Matthias Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria. He hails from Obersulz in Lower Austria, where he attended Volksschule (primary school), then Hauptschule (secondary school).〔 Steiner completed an apprenticeship in plumbing.〔 He started weightlifting in 1995. His father, Friedrich Steiner, a 20-time IWF-Masters World Weightlifting Champion, and also ranks first on the IWF 2008 Hall of Fame Survey of Leading Master Lifters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Hall of Fame Survey (revised 13-Sep-2008) )〕 Since an untreated infection Steiner suffers from diabetes, diagnosed at his 18th birthday.〔 Before the diagnosis, the first symptom was an intense thirst, then he lost appetite, and body weight within three months.〔 He went to the doctor when his sight deteriorated.〔 Despite the diagnosis he followed his dream to become a weightlifter. In 2004,〔 a German woman from Zwickau in Saxony had watched Steiner participating in weightlifting contests on TV. She kept asking the Eurosport commentators for his email address, until they gave it to her. She contacted Steiner, and he agreed to meet her in Lower Austria. They married shortly thereafter and hence he moved to Germany, where he then applied for German citizenship. On 16 July 2007 his wife Susann died in a car accident. Despite the tragic loss, and after losing 〔 or 〔 body weight, he was able to continue his training. In October 2008, Steiner met German TV-newsreader Inge Posmyk. They married in January 2010.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthias Steiner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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