Leopold Trefny

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameLeopold•Trefny
Used nameLeopold•Trefny
Other namesLeopoldo Trefny, Leopoldo Trifny
Born10 October 1904 in Wien (Vienna), Wien (AUT)
Diedin Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (ARG)
Measurements68 kg
AffiliationsMeidlinger A. C., Wien (AUT)
NOC Austria

Biography

Austrian lightweight weightlifter Leopold Trefny set two world records in the middleweight clean & jerk in 1925 and 1927. He finished an unfortunate fourth at the 1924 Paris Olympics with the same result as the Czech Bohumil Durdis, who took the bronze medal because he weighed 500 grams less than Trefny.

Trefny finished fifth at the 1923 World Championships. He also won the 1925 International Czech Championships and finished second at the German Fighting Games the following year. Domestically, Trefny won Austrian national titles in 1923-25, and the Wiener (Vienna) Championships in 1926. He emigrated to Argentina in 1929, and died at Buenos Aires.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1924 Summer Olympics Weightlifting AUT Leopold Trefny
Lightweight, Men (Olympic) 4