Alfred Neuland

Alfred Karl Neuland was an Estonian weightlifter, born on 10 October 1895 in Valga and died on 16 November 1966, who became the first Olympic gold medalist from Estonia. He competed in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal respectively. He won a world title in 1922 and set three ratified world records between 1920 and 1923, one in the snatch and two in the clean and jerk. He also placed second at the Russian championships in 1913 and 1914, won the Russian lightweight title in 1915 and the middleweight title in 1916, and took Estonian titles in 1921, 1923 and 1924. After retiring he worked as a businessman, coach and referee in Valga, where a monument to him was installed in 1995.