Matthias Steiner

Matthias Steiner is one of those athletes whose story hits you harder than any world record. The guy grew up in Vienna, competed for Austria, then switched to Germany and won Olympic gold at Beijing 2008 in the super-heavyweight class — and when he raised that barbell overhead, he held up a photo of his late wife Susann, who had died in a car accident the year before. I challenge you to watch that moment without getting chills. He went on to win German Sportspersonality of the Year and earned the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt, but the hardware almost feels secondary to who he is as a person. Add in the fact that he also pursued a singing career, and you've got one of the genuinely most interesting human beings ever to walk onto a competition platform.

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Name (English)

Matthias Steiner

Name (Japanese)

マティアス・シュタイナー

Reading

まてぃあす・しゅたいなー

Born

August 25, 1982 (age 44)

Origin

Vienna, Austria

Height

183 cm

Occupation

weightlifter / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dog

Awards & achievements

• 2008 German Sportspersonality of the Year
• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt
• Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/matthiassteiner_official/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Steiner
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456406

Tags

• weightlifter
• singer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.