Jüri Lossmann
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Born | Kabala, Governorate of Livonia | 4 February 1891||||||||||||||
Died | 1 May 1984 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 93)||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10,000 m, marathon | ||||||||||||||
Club | Kalev Tallinn | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 10,000 m – 34:05.0 (1924) Marathon – 2:32:49 (1920) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jüri Lossmann (4 February [O.S. 23 January] 1891 – 1 May 1984) was an Estonian long distance runner.[1] 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.[2]
Biography
Lossmann started as a football player for Merkur club before changing to athletics. He was wounded in World War I, but recovered and in 1916 won a marathon race in Tallinn and the Russian Championships in the 5000 m. In 1923 he won the international marathon in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in 1928, he ran the first leg of the Trans-America Run. Next year he set an Estonian record in one-hour running and competed in the Antwerpen marathon.[2][3]
Besides running, Lossmann worked for the Estonian Chocolate Factory
References
- ^ "Jüri Lossmann". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ a b c "Jüri Lossmann". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ a b Lossmann, Jüri. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon
External links
- Media related to Jüri Lossmann at Wikimedia Commons
- Jüri Lossmann at Olympics.com
- Jüri Lossmann at Olympic.org (archived)
- Jüri Lossmann at Olympedia
- Jüri Lossmann at the Estonian Olympic Committee (archived)
- Jüri Lossmann at ESBL (in Estonian)