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Statue of wrestler Georg Lurich
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Estonian wrestler and strongman Georg Lurich was a wrestling world champion in the early years of the 20th century, and was the first Estonian to set a world weightlifting record
Born in 1876, he helped to popularise athletics and sport in Estonia and remains a popular figure in Estonia, for a century after his death in 1920.
This memorial is on Estonia puiestee street in Tallinn.
It says:
Eesti maadlusspordi
Rajaja mitmekordne
Maailmameister
Georg Lurich
22.4.1876 - 22.1.1920
õppis eno. talinna
Reaalkoolis aastail
1887 kuni 1894
Translated as:
Founder of Estonian
wrestling sport and multiple
World Champion
Georg Lurich
22 April 1876 - 22 January 1920
Studied at the Tallinn
Secondary Science School
from 1887 to 1894
Title: Statue of wrestler Georg Lurich
Description:
Estonian wrestler and strongman Georg Lurich was a wrestling world champion in the early years of the 20th century, and was the first Estonian to set a world weightlifting record
Born in 1876, he helped to popularise athletics and sport in Estonia and remains a popular figure in Estonia, for a century after his death in 1920.
This memorial is on Estonia puiestee street in Tallinn.
It says:
Eesti maadlusspordi
Rajaja mitmekordne
Maailmameister
Georg Lurich
22.
4.
1876 - 22.
1.
1920
õppis eno.
talinna
Reaalkoolis aastail
1887 kuni 1894
Translated as:
Founder of Estonian
wrestling sport and multiple
World Champion
Georg Lurich
22 April 1876 - 22 January 1920
Studied at the Tallinn
Secondary Science School
from 1887 to 1894.
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