Alfred Neuland
![]() Neuland in 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | 10 October 1895 Walk, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire | |||||||||||||||||||
Died | 16 November 1966 (aged 71) Tallinn, Estonia | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 166 cm (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||
Club | Kalev Tallinn | |||||||||||||||||||
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Alfred Karl Neuland (10 October 1895 – 16 November 1966) was an Estonian weightlifter.[1] He competed in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal, respectively, becoming the first Olympic gold medalist from Estonia.[2] He won a world title in 1922,[3] and set three ratified world record in 1920–23: one in the snatch and two in the clean and jerk.[4]
Born in Walk, Livonia Neuland studied in Riga, Latvia, and Saint Petersburg, Russia. He took up weightlifting relatively early, and placed second at the Russian championships in 1913 and 1914; he won the Russian lightweight title in 1915 and middleweight title in 1916. Neuland then fought in World War I and in the Estonian War of Independence, and after demobilization he won Estonian weightlifting titles in 1921, 1923 and 1924. After that he retired from competitions and worked as a businessman, weightlifting coach and referee in his hometown of Valga from 1921 to 1940. From 1950 to 1955, Neuland headed the Estonian Experimental Soft Drinks Factory in Tallinn. In 1995 a monument in his honor was installed in Valga, and since 2000 an annual memorial weightlifting tournament has been held there.[3][5]
References[]
- ^ "Alfred Neuland". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ "Alfred NEULAND". Olympics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Alfred Neuland. sports-reference.com
- ^ Alfred Neuland. chidlovski.net
- ^ Neuland, Alfred Karl. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon
External links[]
- Alfred Neuland at Olympedia
- Alfred Neuland at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Alfred Neuland at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- 1895 births
- 1966 deaths
- Sportspeople from Valga, Estonia
- People from the Governorate of Livonia
- Estonian male weightlifters
- Olympic gold medalists for Estonia
- Olympic silver medalists for Estonia
- Weightlifters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters of Estonia
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Burials at Metsakalmistu
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Estonian sportspeople stubs
- Estonian Olympic medalist stubs