Harald Tammer

Harald Tammer

Harald Tammer (born January 9, 1899 in Tallinn , † June 6, 1942 at Semjonow in Gorky Oblast ) was an Estonian weightlifter and athlete .

Career

Harald Tammer grew up in Tallinn and turned to athletics as a teenager, then weightlifting. As a track and field athlete, he was a top athlete from a young age.

In 1915, at the age of 16, he set an Estonian record in discus throwing . In 1918 he set another Estonian record, this time in the shot put , with 13.93 meters. He soon showed excellent performance in weightlifting as well. With a two-armed push he reached 140 kg with a body weight of almost 90 kg. Winning the bronze medal in weightlifting (heavyweight) at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris was his greatest sporting success.

In addition to his sporting career, Harald Tammer was a journalist for the daily newspaper Päevaleht . He was also politically active and was a member of the Estonian Olympic Committee .

After the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940, Harald Tammer was deported to the Soviet Union and murdered there in 1942 by Josef Stalin's henchmen in a camp near Semjonow in Gorky Oblast .

International success

• 1920, 6th place, Olympic Games in Antwerp , shot put , 13.60 m;
• 1922, 1st place, World Weightlifting Championships in Tallinn , heavyweight, ahead of Kārlis Leilands , Latvia and Kaljo-Feliks Raag , Estonia;
• 1924, 3rd place, Olympic Games in Paris , one-armed tearing, one-armed pushing, two-arm pushing, tearing and pushing, heavyweight, with 497.5 kg, behind Giuseppe Tonani , Italy , 517.5 kg and Franz Aigner , Austria , 515 kg .

Web links

• Harald Tammer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile of Harald Tammer in the lift-up project at chidlovski.net (English)
• Sports achievements and photo (Estonian)