Rein Aun

Rein Aun ( born October 5, 1940 in Tallinn, Estonia, † March 11, 1995 ) was a Soviet athlete.

Career

Rein Aun lost age of thirteen his father. He attended a sports school in Tallinn and devoted himself to the first long-distance running, before he was selected for the decathlon. His study time spent Aun in Tartu, where he joined the VSS Kalev Tartu joined. Rein Aun occupied at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 to second place in the decathlon behind the German Willi Holdorf. He reached 7842 points ( 10.9 s - 7.22 m - 13.82 m - 1,93 m - 48,8 s - 15,9 s - 44.19 m - 4.20 m - 59.06 m - 4:22,3 min). Based on the final 1500 race, he picked up the completely exhausted collapsed overall winner Holdorf and congratulated him fair despite his narrow defeat as the first. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1966, he took 5th place with 7378 points behind four Germans. His personal best put pure Aun 1968 with 8026 points ( 7898 points according to the current rating since 1985 ). At the Olympics 1968 he gave up after four disciplines. His competition weight, 86 kg at a height of 1.90 m. In 1995, he died after a severe attack of fever.