Federico Kleger
Federico Esteban Kleger (* 9. January 1903 in Wynberg , South Africa , † 1952 ) was an Argentine athlete , who at the 1928 Olympics in seventh place and at the Olympic Games in 1932 to sixth place in the hammer throw occupied.
The 1.85 meter tall Kleger won the 1926 South American Championships with 46.46 meters and the 1927 South American Championships with 46.69 meters. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, six throwers reached the final, the places behind were ranked according to their placement in the qualification. No hammer thrower from South America reached the final, but in the list of results Kleger is in seventh place with 46.61 meters, ahead of Chilean Ricardo Bayer with 46.34 meters.
At the South American Championships in 1929 Kleger won his third gold medal in a row with 49.565 meters. In 1931 he took second place with 45.37 meters behind the Chilean Pedro Goic . At the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932, Kleger threw the hammer to 48.33 meters and took sixth place, exactly two meters behind the bronze medal.
Kleger threw his personal best of 53.51 meters in the finals of the South American Championships in Montevideo in 1933 , he won the competition by almost eight meters over the Chilean Antonio Barticevic . This achievement held up as a championship record until 1958. In 1937 Kleger won silver with 48.85 meters behind the Brazilian Assis Naban . Kleger won his last medal in 1941 with bronze.
Web links
- Federico Kleger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- South American Championships
Individual evidence
- ↑ for example: Volker Kluge : Summer Olympics. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 617.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kleger, Federico |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kleger, Federico Esteban (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wynberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1952 |