{{short description|Estonian weightlifter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name=Harald Tammer |image= Harald Tammer.jpg |birth_date=9 January 1899 |birth_place=Tallinn, Estonia |death_date=6 June 1942 (aged 43) |death_place=Unzhlag Gulag prison camp, Soviet Union |sport=Weightlifting, athletics |event=Shot put, discus throw, hammer throw |pb=SP – 14.15 m (1922)<br>DT – 41.06 m (1920)<br>HT – 37.18 m (1923)<ref name=sr/><ref name=tf/> |club = Kalev Tallinn |show-medals=yes |medaltemplates= {{MedalCountry|{{EST}}}} {{MedalSport|Weightlifting }} {{MedalOlympic}} {{MedalBronze| 1924 Paris | +82.5 kg }} {{MedalCompetition|World Championships}} {{MedalGold| 1922 Tallinn| +82.5 kg}} }}
'''Harald Tammer''' (9 January 1899 – 6 June 1942) was an Estonian journalist, athlete and weightlifter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/67356 |title=Harald Tammer |work=Olympedia |access-date=21 July 2021}}</ref> As a heavyweight weightlifter he won a world title in 1922 and a bronze medal at the 1924 Olympics.<ref name=chid/> As an athlete he competed in the shot put at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics and came sixth and twelfth, respectively. He served as the Olympic flag bearer for Estonia in 1920,<ref name=sr2/> and as a representative of the Estonian Olympic team in 1928 and 1936.<ref name=sr/>
==Career== In 1915 Tammer graduated from Tallinn Commerce School and joined the Sports Association Kalev. Next year he placed within the podium at the Russian championships in shot put, discus throw and hammer throw. Soon after that he volunteered to fight in World War I and Estonian War of Independence as member of the Estonian Defence Leagues {{Interlanguage link|Kalevlaste Maleva|lt=Kalevlaste Maleva Battalion|et}} in Tallinn. After demobilization, from 1921 to 1928 he edited the Estonian sports newspaper ''Eesti Spordileht'', and in 1923–33 was a journalist and in 1933–1940 editor-in-chief of ''Eesti Päevaleht''. In 1928–40 he was a board member of Estonian Journalists Union, and in 1934–35 headed the Baltic Journalists Union. Tammer studied law and diplomacy at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques in Paris in 1931–33. He was also a board member of the Estonian National Olympic Committee in 1933–40, and of the Estonian Parliament in 1937–40. In 1940 he briefly worked as editor of the magazine ''Revue Baltique''. Next year he was accused of spying for the Estonian Defence Forces and deported to Russia. He died in 1942 in the Unzhlag corrective labor camp (part of the Gulag prison system).<ref name=sr/><ref name=bio/><ref name="WWII">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}</ref>
==Awards== * 21 February 1940 Order of the Estonian Red Cross II class (et: ''Eesti Punase Risti Teenetemärk II klass'') * 18 June 1936 Order of the Estonian Red Cross II class I (et:''Eesti Punase Risti mälestusmärk II järgu I aste'') *1924 Order of Lāčplēsis nr.3/1816<ref>{{Cite web |title=LKOK nr.3/1816 : Tammer, Harald |url=http://www.lkok.com/detail1.asp?ID=1915 |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=www.lkok.com |language=lv}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418004150/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ta/harald-tammer-1.html Harald Tammer]. sports-reference.com</ref> <ref name=sr2>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417092016/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/EST/ Estonia]. sports-reference.com</ref> <ref name=tf>[http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=6542&Gender=M Harald Tammer]. trackfield.brinkster.net</ref> <ref name=chid>[http://www.chidlovski.net/liftup/l_athleteResult.asp?a_id=267 Harald Tammer]. chidlovski.net</ref> <ref name=bio>[https://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Harald_Tammer Tammer, Harald]. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon</ref> }}
==External links== {{Commons category|Harald Tammer}} *[http://www.rotary.ee/index.php?frm_app_page=6&frm_app_action=1&frm_app_id=416 Short biography – Members of Tallinn Rotary Club 1930–40] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080724085303/http://www.rotaryfirst100.org/global/countries/estonia/1940-1941.htm What Happened to Rotary and rotarians in 1940 and 1941 in Estonia and the Baltic States]
{{Footer World champions in weightlifting – Men's heavyweight}} {{Authority control}}
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