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Alfred Neuland (1920)

Alfred Neuland (born October 10, 1895 in Walk , † November 16, 1966 in Tallinn , Soviet Union ) was an Estonian weightlifter .

Career

Alfred Neuland grew up in the Estonian city of Valga and started lifting weights there at the age of 14. In 1911 he competed in his first competition in Riga , where he won the lightweight. The First World War interrupted his athletic career. He then competed in two Olympic Games: in 1920 he won a gold medal and in 1924 a silver medal. In 1921 Alfred Neuland founded his own company. He has not been forgotten in Estonia. After Estonia regained political independence in 1990, a memorial was erected to him in his hometown Valga.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, DK = three-way fight, consisting of one-armed tearing, one-armed thrusting and two-armed thrusting, FK = pentathlon, consisting of one-armed tearing and thrusting, as well as two-armed pushing, tearing and thrusting, Le = lightweight, Mi = Medium weight)

• 1920, gold medal , OS in Antwerp , Le, DK, with 257.5 kg, in front of Louis Williquet, Belgium , 240 kg and Florimond Rooms, Belgium, 230 kg;
• 1922, 1st place , World Championships in Tallinn , FK, Le, ahead of Eduard Vanaaseme, Estonia and Valdemar Normägi, Estonia;
• 1924, silver medal , OS in Paris , FK, Wed, with 455 kg, behind Carlo Galimberti , Italy , 492.5 kg and in front of Jaan Kikas , Estonia, 450 kg.

World records

in two-armed tearing:

• 91.5 kg, 1922 in Tallinn , Le,
• 97.5 kg, 1923 in Vienna , Le,
• 100 kg, 1923 in Tallinn, Wed.

in two-armed thrusting:

• 110 kg, 1920 in Antwerp ,
• 115 kg, 1922 in Tallinn,
• 130 kg, 1925 in Tallinn.

Web links

• Alfred Neuland in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Sports achievements and photo (Estonian)