Aleksander Kreek
Aleksander Kreek (born July 21, 1914 in the municipality of Lihula , Läänemaa County , Estonia , † August 19, 1977 in Toronto , Ontario , Canada ) was an Estonian athlete . In 1938 he became the second European champion in the shot put . With a height of 1.91 m, he had a competition weight of 97 kg.
In 1937, Kreek won the Student World Games with 15.17 meters.
After an Estonian had already won the shot put at the first European Athletics Championships with Arnold Viiding , Aleksander Kreek succeeded in bringing the second shot put title to Estonia at the European Athletics Championships in Paris in 1938 . In the final on September 4, 1938, he defeated the Germans Gerhard Stöck and Hans Woellke with 15.83 meters .
Aleksander Kreek hit his third and last official national record in Tallinn in 1939 with 16.40 meters. In 1940 he pushed half a centimeter further in Tapa, which was not recognized as a record. With the discus , Kreek threw his best distance of 47.40 meters in 1939.
From 1936 to 1938 Kreek was an employee of the National Statistics Office, then until 1940 of the Estonian National Bank. From 1942 to 1944 he was a police officer. Before the second occupation of Estonia by the Red Army , Kreek fled to Sweden; from 1951 he lived in Canada. His grandson Adam Kreek is a Canadian rower who became the Canadian eighth Olympic champion in 2008 and three times world champion.
Web links
- Aleksander Kreek in the trackfield.brinkster.net database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ KREEK, ALEKSANDER (Estonian, accessed January 10, 2018)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kreek, Aleksander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lihula Parish, Läänemaa County, Estonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th August 1977 |
| Place of death | Toronto , Ontario , Canada |