Aleksander Tammert

Aleksander Tammert (born February 2, 1973 in Tartu ) is an Estonian athlete .

After failing to qualify in the discus throw at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and ninth place at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Tammert finished fourth at the 2004 Games in Athens with 66.66 meters. After the first-placed Róbert Fazekas from Hungary was subsequently disqualified for violating the doping control rules, Tammert received the bronze medal.

At world championships, Tammert reached the finals five times. He was twelfth in Athens in 1997 , tenth in Seville in 1999 , seventh in Paris / Saint-Denis in 2003 , fourth in Helsinki in 2005 and eighth in Osaka in 2007 .

After Tammert had finished fifth at the European Championships in Munich in 2002 , he won bronze in Gothenburg in 2006 . With the winner Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania and his Estonian compatriot Gerd Kanter as second, three Balts stood on the winners podium.

His best performance in the discus throw comes from April 2006 and also meant the Estonian national record of 70.82 meters. Gerd Kanter took it back in September 2006 with a litter of 73.38 meters. In the shot put , Tammert's best performance was 18.05 meters from 1999.

Tammert is 1.96 m tall and has a competition weight of 126 kg. His father Aleksander (born April 28, 1947; † October 27, 2006) was also a track and field athlete: in 1966 he won the European Junior Championships in the shot put and was five times Estonian champion in this discipline (1968, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974).

Web links

• Aleksander Tammert in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Aleksander Tammert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Sports achievements and photo (Estonian)