Bruno Junk
| File:Bruno Junk 1952b.jpg Junk in 1952 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 27 September 1929 |
| Died | 22 September 1995 (aged 65) Tartu, Estonia |
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) |
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event | Race walking |
| Club | Dynamo Moscow Dünamo Tallinn |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 10 km – 42:20.6 (1958) 20 km – 1:28:05 (1956)[1] |
Medal record | |
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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.[1][2]
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 from 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 honour in his birth town of Valga. There is a street named after him in Puka, Estonia, a borough near Valga.[1][2]
References
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External links
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- Bruno Junk at ESBL (in Estonian)
- Bruno Junk at the Estonian Olympic Committee (archived)
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- 1929 births
- 1995 deaths
- Sportspeople from Valga, Estonia
- Estonian men race walkers
- Soviet men race walkers
- Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists in athletics
- 20th-century Estonian sportsmen
- Estonian Olympic medalist stubs
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs
- Estonian athletics biography stubs