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Aleksander Klumberg
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1899-04-17 ) 17 April 1899, Tallinn , Estonia , Russian Empire
- Died
- 10 February 1958 (1958-02-10) (aged 58), Tallinn, then part of Estonian SSR , Soviet Union
- Height
- 174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
- Weight
- 74 kg (163 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Decathlon
- Club
- Kalev Tallinn
- Personal best s
- Dec – 6087 (1922), JT – 63.60 m (1935), DT – 42.38 m (1922), SP – 13.63 m (1922), LJ – 7.20 m (1923), TJ – 14.33 m (1924), HJ – 1.83 m, PV – 3:50 m, 100 m – 11.6, 400 m – 54.4, 1500 m – 4:44.3, 110 mH – 16.4
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Aleksander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Tallinn
- Place of death
- Tallinn
- Languages spoken
- Estonian
- Participant in
- athletics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – men's decathlon
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Russian Empire
- Mass
- 74
- Image
- Aleksander Klumberg.jpeg
- Height
- 174
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- Commons category
- Aleksander Klumberg
- date of birth
- 1899-04-17
- date of death
- 1958-02-10
- sports discipline competed in
- decathlon
- place of burial
- Rahumäe Cemetery
- name in native language
- Aleksander Klumberg
- record held
- decathlon world record progression
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Encyclopedic overview
Aleksander Klumberg (since 1936 Kolmpere; 17 April 1899 – 10 February 1958) was an Estonian decathlete. He represented Estonia in several events at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, and won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. In 1922, he became the first official world record holder in the decathlon. Arrested by the Soviet occupation authorities during World War II, Klumberg was deported from Estonia, imprisoned in a Russian Gulag camp from 1945 to 1954, and deported to Siberia in 1954–1955.
Klumberg took up athletics around 1912 and, already in 1915–1917, set multiple records of the then Russian Empire in several jumping and throwing events. Besides athletics he won three Estonian titles in bandy. In 1918–1919, he fought in the Estonian War of Independence as a volunteer. After that he worked as a physical education instructor with the Estonian army (1919–20), military schools (1924–1926) and police schools (1927 and 1942–1944).
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