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Tõnu Kaukis
Tõnu Kaukis (born 27 March 1956) is an Estonian coach and former decathlete. He was born in Tallinn. In 1978 he graduated from Tallinn Pedagogical Institute's Faculty of Physical Education. He began athletics training in 1967, coached by Aleksander Tšikin. He is multiple-times Estonian champion in different athletics disciplines. 1974–1985 he was a member of Estonian national athletics team. Between In 1975 and 1985, he won ten gold medals at the Estonian SSR Championships (five in the 110 metres hurdles, three in long jump, and two in decathlon), three silver medals, and one bronze medal. Since 1986 he is working as an athletics coach who has trained Indrek Turi, Madis Kallas, Maicel Uibo, Karl Robert Saluri Karl Robert Saluri (born August 6, 1993 in Kuimetsa, Rapla County) is a former Estonian decathlete. In April 2016 Saluri earned a personal record score of 8108, enough to pass the qualifying mark for the 2016 Olympics of 8100. This result beat .... Awards: * 2016: ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,300 other islands and islets on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Its capital Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest List of cities and towns in Estonia, urban areas. The Estonian language is the official language and the first language of the Estonians, majority of its population of nearly 1.4 million. Estonia is one of the least populous members of the European Union and NATO. Present-day Estonia has been inhabited since at least 9,000 BC. The Ancient Estonia#Early Middle Ages, medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last pagan civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity following the Northern Crusades in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Robert Saluri
Karl Robert Saluri (born August 6, 1993 in Kuimetsa, Rapla County) is a former Estonian decathlete. In April 2016 Saluri earned a personal record score of 8108, enough to pass the qualifying mark for the 2016 Olympics of 8100. This result beat his previous personal record by 637 points. Additionally, this result made him the European leader up to that point of the year and earned him honors as the European Athlete of the Month The European Athlete of the Month is an award that can be won by athletes participating in events within the sport of Sport of athletics, athletics organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA). The election has been organised since 2007. ... for April, 2016. In May 2020 he announced his retirement from competitive sports. In December of 2021, Saluri became the coach of Estonian decathlete Karel Tilga and Chinese heptathlete Zheng Ninali. By April 2022, the athletes were no longer working with Saluri. International competitions Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonian Sports Coaches
Estonian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Estonia, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe * Estonians, people from Estonia, or of Estonian descent * Estonian language * Estonian cuisine * Estonian culture See also * * Estonia (other) * Languages of Estonia * List of Estonians This is a list of notable people from Estonia, or of Estonian ancestry. Architects * Andres Alver (born 1953) * Dmitri Bruns (1929–2020) * Karl Burman (1882–1965) * Eugen Habermann (1884–1944) * Georg Hellat (1870–1943) * Otto Pius Hip ... {{Disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1956 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Waorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 2 – Austria and Israel establish diplomatic Austria–Israel relations, relations. * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Maicel Uibo
Maicel Uibo (born 27 December 1992) is an Estonian decathlete. While competing for the University of Georgia, he won the 2014 and 2015 NCAA championships in decathlon. Uibo won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships, setting his personal best in the event with 8604 points. International competitions Personal life Uibo married his college sweetheart, Bahamian track star and two-time Olympic 400 meter champion, Shaunae Miller Shaunae Miller-Uibo (born 15 April 1994) is a Bahamian Sport of athletics, track and field Sprint (running), sprinter who competes in the 200 metres, 200 and 400 metres. She is a two-time Olympic champion after winning the women's 400 metres at ... in 2017. Tribune242, 7 February 2017 References External links |
Tallinn
Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and administratively lies in the Harju County, Harju ''Counties of Estonia, maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main governmental, financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city, Tartu, however, only south of Helsinki, Finland; it is also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical Names of Tallinn in different languages, name Reval. “Reval” received Lübeck law, Lübeck city rights in 1248; however, the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madis Kallas
Madis Kallas (born 22 April 1981) is an Estonian decathlete and Politics of Estonia, politician, who currently serves as the Ministry of the Environment (Estonia), Minister of the Environment of Estonia. He was the mayor of Saaremaa Municipality from 2017 to 2020 and again from 2021 to 2022. Kallas was sworn in as Minister of Rural Affairs (Estonia), Minister of Regional and Rural Affairs in the Kaja Kallas' third cabinet, third cabinet of Kaja Kallas on 17 April 2023. Achievements References External links * * 1981 births Estonian decathletes Estonian sportsperson-politicians Living people Mayors of Kuressaare Members of the Riigikogu, 2023–2027 Social Democratic Party (Estonia) politicians Sportspeople from Kuressaare {{Estonia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indrek Turi
Indrek Turi (born 30 July 1981 in Tallinn) is a retired Estonian decathlete. His coach is Andrei Nazarov. Turi lives near Räpina Räpina (, ) is a town in Põlva County, Estonia. Räpina was administrative centre of Räpina raion from 1950 until 1961, currently it is the administrative centre of Räpina Parish. The oldest commercial enterprise in Räpina is a paper fac ... in Võõpsu village, Mikitamäe Parish. Achievements Personal bests (outdoor) References External links * 1981 births Living people Estonian decathletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Estonia Athletes from Tallinn Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games silver medalists for Estonia Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade {{Estonia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
