Katie Sandwina

Katie Sandwina

Katie Sandwina (1884 – January 21, 1952), born Katie Brumbach in Vienna, Austria, was a circus strongwoman.

Life in the circus

Katie Brumbach was one of fourteen children born to circus performers Philippe and Johanna Brumbach. In her early years, Katie performed with her family. Katie's father would offer one hundred marks to any man in the audience who could defeat her in wrestling; no one ever succeeded in winning the prize. It was during one such performance that Katie met her husband of fifty-two years, Max Heymann.

Brumbach once defeated the famous strongman Eugene Sandow in a weightlifting contest in New York. Katie lifted a weight of 300 pounds over her head, which Sandow only managed to lift to his chest. After this victory, she adopted the stage name "Sandwina" as a feminine derivative of Sandow.

Sandwina worked in the United States with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for many years, until she was nearly 60. One of her standard performance feats was lifting her husband (who weighed 165 pounds) overhead with one hand. She performed many other feats, such as bending steel bars and resisting the pull of four horses.

Retirement

In her later years, Katie and her husband operated a restaurant in New York. They had a son, Theodore Sandwina, who was a champion heavyweight boxer in the 1920s. Sandwina died from cancer on January 21, 1952.

References


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title = The World’s Strongest Woman Retired And Opened A Local, Family Tavern
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date = February 20, 2003
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External links

* [http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/IGH/IGH0106/IGH0106d.pdf Talking with: The World's Strongest Woman] "Iron Game History," August 1991, reprinting (and possibly translating) from the German paper "Woven Man Spricht," December 8, 1910, and posted at the [http://www.aafla.org/ Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles] ' website


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