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Alfred Neuland

1895 - 1966

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Alfred Karl Neuland (10 October 1895 – 16 November 1966) was an Estonian weightlifter. He competed in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal, respectively, becoming the first Olympic gold medalist from Estonia. He won a world title in 1922, and set three ratified world records in 1920–23: one in the snatch and two in the clean and jerk. Born in Walk (Valga), Governorate of Livonia Neuland studied in Riga, Latvia, and Saint Petersburg, Russia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Neuland is the 158th most popular athlete (down from 148th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 67th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Alfred Neuland ranks 158 out of 6,025. Before him are Paulinho, Auguste Serrurier, Harrison Dillard, Hélène de Pourtalès, Maxie Long, and John Anderson. After him are Vladimír Dzurilla, Kipchoge Keino, Barbara Jones, Ilmari Salminen, Nadezhda Olizarenko, and Nándor Dáni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Alfred Neuland ranks 124. Before him are Ernesto Lecuona, Iona Nikitchenko, Ernst Kantorowicz, Bertil Lindblad, Robert Heinrich Wagner, and Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva. After him are Pan Yuliang, H. A. R. Gibb, Isamu Chō, Jakov Gotovac, Lucian Blaga, and Vsevolod Merkulov. Among people deceased in 1966, Alfred Neuland ranks 88. Before him are Boris Podolsky, Camilo Torres Restrepo, Wieland Wagner, Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski, Georges Theunis, and Albert W. Hull. After him are Heimito von Doderer, Frank Lentini, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, Sylvère Maes, John of Shanghai and San Francisco, and Vera Weizmann.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Alfred Neuland ranks 64 out of 323. Before him are Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Alberts Kviesis (1881), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Maria Skobtsova (1891), and Paulinho (null). After him are Ferdinand Kettler (1655), Anatole Abragam (1914), Evika Siliņa (1975), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Karl Eichwald (1795), and Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824).

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Among ATHLETES In Latvia

Among athletes born in Latvia, Alfred Neuland ranks 4. Before him are Jānis Lūsis (1939), Inese Jaunzeme (1932), and Paulinho (null). After him are Jānis Daliņš (1904), Afanasijs Kuzmins (1947), Ursula Donath (1931), Dainis Kūla (1959), Juris Silovs (1950), George Gulack (1905), Aigars Fadejevs (1975), and Vera Zozulya (1956).

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