Arnold Luhaäär
![]() Arnold Luhaäär in 1935 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Mõisaküla, Governorate of Livonia | 20 October 1905||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 19 January 1965 Tallinn, Estonia | (aged 59)||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 120 kg (265 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Eesti Töölisspordi Liit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Arnold Luhaäär (20 October 1905 – 19 January 1965) was an Estonian heavyweight weightlifter. He competed in the 1928 and 1936 Olympics and won a silver and a bronze medal, respectively. He missed the 1932 games because Estonia could not afford sending a full team to Los Angeles during the Great Depression.[1]
Luhaäär took up weightlifting in 1919 and won the national title in 1926, 1928, 1932–34 and 1936–38. In 1931 he also won the national Greco-Roman wrestling championships. Besides his Olympic medals he placed third at the 1938 World Championships and set a world record in the clean and jerk in 1937.[2] After retiring from competitions he worked as a sports official and referee. In 1935–40 and 1945–52 he was a board member of the Estonian Weightlifting Federation, and in 1946–48 headed sport club Spartak Tallinn. Since 1992 an annual weightlifting tournament has been held in his hometown of Mõisaküla in his honor.[1][3][4]
References
- ^ a b Arnold Luhaäär. sports-reference.com
- ^ Arnold Luhaaar. chidlovski.net
- ^ Arnold Luhaäär. Estonian Olympic Committee
- ^ Luhaäär, Arnold. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon
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- 1905 births
- 1965 deaths
- People from Mulgi Parish
- People from the Governorate of Livonia
- Estonian male weightlifters
- Olympic silver medalists for Estonia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Estonia
- Olympic weightlifters of Estonia
- Weightlifters at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Weightlifters at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
- World Weightlifting Championships medalists
- European weightlifting biography stubs
- Estonian sportspeople stubs
- Estonian Olympic medalist stubs