Arnold Viiding
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Arnold Viiding (19 March 1911 in Valga, Estonia – 20 October 2006 in Sydney, Australia) was an Estonian shot putter and discus thrower. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, he achieved eighth place in the shot put event with 15.23 metres.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Viiding graduated from the Tallinn Police School in 1932 and worked as a policeman. In 1936, he joined the academic corporation Fraternitas Estica. In 1940, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu. After the Nazi occupation in 1941 during the Second World War, Viiding served as the chief of the police school of the Estonian Security Police.
In 1944, Viiding fled the Soviet occupation of Estonia and emigrated first to Germany and in 1949 to Australia. Along with other Estonians, he established a plastics factory, "Arnolds Plastics".
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Arnold Viiding at Olympics.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Arnold Viiding at Olympic.org (archived)
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- Arnold Viiding at ESBL (in Estonian)
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- 1911 births
- 2006 deaths
- Sportspeople from Valga, Estonia
- People from Valka county
- Estonian men shot putters
- Estonian men discus throwers
- Olympic athletes for Estonia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Athletes from Sydney
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Estonian World War II refugees
- Estonian athletics biography stubs