Aleksander Klumberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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athletics competitor
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Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia
About Aleksander Klumberg
- Aleksander Klumberg (since 1936 Kolmpere; 17 April 1899 – 10 February 1958) was an Estonian decathlete.
- He competed in several events at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the decathlon in 1924.
- In 1922 he became the first official world record holder in the decathlon, albeit with a performance inferior to the Stockholm 1912 series of Jim Thorpe.Klumberg took up athletics around 1912, and in 1915–17 held Russian records in several jumping and throwing events.
- Besides athletics he won three Estonian titles in bandy.
- In 1918–19 he fought in the Estonian War of Independence as a volunteer, and after that worked as a physical education instructor with the Estonian army (1919–20), military schools (1924–26) and police schools (1927 and 1942–44).
- He also trained the national athletics teams of Poland (1927–32) and Estonia, and in this capacity attended the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Olympics.
- He was arrested by NKVD in 1944 and kept in a prison camp in the Soviet Far East until 1956.
- He is buried at the Rahumäe cemetery in Tallinn.
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