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Jüri Lossmann
Sign in to saveEstonian athletics competitor and association football player (1891–1984)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1891-02-04 ) 4 February 1891, Kabala , Governorate of Livonia
- Died
- 1 May 1984 (1984-05-01) (aged 93), Stockholm , Sweden
- Height
- 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Weight
- 69 kg (152 lb)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event s
- 10,000 m, marathon
- Club
- Kalev Tallinn
- Personal best s
- 10,000 m – 34:05.0 (1924), Marathon – 2:32:49 (1920)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Lossmann
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of death
- Stockholm
- Occupation
- goldsmith
- Educated at
- Gustav Adolf Grammar School
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Participant in
- 1920 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- association football
- Country for sport
- Estonia
- Mass
- 69
- Image
- Jüri Lossmann 1920.jpg
- Height
- 170.5
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- date of birth
- 1891-02-04
- date of death
- 1984-05-01
- sports discipline competed in
- marathon
- Commons category
- Jüri Lossmann
- place of burial
- Skogskyrkogården
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Encyclopedic overview
Jüri Lossmann (4 February [O.S. 23 January] 1891 – 1 May 1984) was an Estonian long-distance runner. He finished second in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at 2:32:48.6, trailing Hannes Kolehmainen by 13 seconds, but beating the third-placed Valerio Arri by almost 4 minutes. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, he was the flag bearer for Estonia and finished tenth in the marathon.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jüri Lossmann” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.