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Place of Birth: Valga, Valga County, Estonia
About Bruno Junk
- Bruno Junk (27 September 1929 – 22 September 1995) was an Estonian race walker.
- He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won bronze medals on both occasions.
- He set a world record in the 15 km in 1951 (1:08:08.0), and had world's best times in the 20 km in 1956 (1:30:00.8) and in the 3 km in 1952 (11:51.4).
- Domestically he won four Soviet titles: in 1951 and 1956 in the 20 km, and in 1952 and 1953 in the 10 km, and eight Estonian titles: in 1949–50 and 1956–59 in the 20 km, in 1958 in the 10 km, and in 1959 in the 30 km.Junk took up race walking in 1948 and retired in 1959.
- He later worked as an athletics coach at Dünamo Tallinn club, serving as its vice-president in 1976–1979.
- He was also vice-president (1964–1970) and then president (1979–1987) of the Estonian Athletics Federation.
- In parallel Junk worked for the Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs and wrote for the Estonian sports periodicals Kehakultuur and Spordileht.
- Since 1996 an annual memorial race walking tournament has been held in his honor in his birth town of Valga.
- There is a street named after him in Puka, Estonia, a borough near Valga.
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