Alfred Neuland

Alfred Neuland ( born October 10, 1895 in Walk, † 16 November 1966 in Tallinn, Soviet Union) was an Estonian weightlifter.

Career

Alfred Neuland grew up in the Estonian town Valga and began at age 14 with the weight lifting. In 1911 he played his first match in Riga, where he won the lightweight. The first World War interrupted his sports career. Then he went at two Olympic Games at the start: In 1920, he won a gold and a silver medal in 1924. In 1921, Alfred Neuland own company. In Estonia we have not forgotten him. After regaining of political independence of Estonia in 1990 a monument was erected in his home town of Valga.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, DK = powerlifting, consisting of one-arm snatch, one-arm jerk and beidarmigem pushing, FK = pentathlon, consisting of one-arm snatch and jerk, and beidarmigem Press, Snatch and Jerk, Le = Lightweight, Mi = middleweight)

World Records

In beidarmigen tearing:

  • 91.5 kg, 1922 in Tallinn, Le,
  • 97.5 kg, 1923 in Vienna, Le,
  • 100 kg in 1923 in Tallinn, Mi

In beidarmigen Launched:

Walk, Livonia November 16 Olympic weightlifting Valga, Estonia 1924 Summer Olympics Carlo Galimberti Italy Jaan Kikkas Edmond Decottignies Kurt Helbig Hans Haas Robert Fein Ibrahim Shams Tommy Kono Ihor Rybak Zbigniew Tadeusz Kaczmarek Yanko Rusev Yao Jingyuan Joachim Kunz Zhan Xugang Zhang Guozheng Liao Hui (weightlifter) Lin Qingfeng
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