Arild Lenth (20 November 1904 – 28 March 1972) was a Norwegian

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

er and

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er. His personal best long jump was 7.18 metres, achieved in July 1928 on

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. In August 1928 at the same stadium he jumped 14.11 metres in the triple jump, another career best. At the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...

he competed in the long and triple jump. In the

he achieved 6.60 metres and failed to reach the final; in the

he achieved 13.39 metres and again failed to reach the final. He became Norwegian champion in the long jump in 1928 and 1929, representing

Hamar IL Hamar Idrettslag is a Norway, Norwegian sports club from Hamar. It has sections for bandy, curling, association football, sport of athletics, athletics, sport shooting, Rowing (sport), rowing, speed skating, Diving (sport), diving, swimming (spor ...

. He also won the national bronze medal in 1927. He became Norwegian triple jump champion once, in 1928. He did not hold the triple jump club record in Hamar IL, as Lauritz G. Bryhn had jumped 14.28 metres in 1921. Lenth chaired the club Hamar IL from 1946 to 1947. Together with Guri Bakke (1910–1989) he had the son

Borger Arildssøn Lenth Borger may refer to: *Borger (name), a surname and given name *Borger, Netherlands *Borger, Texas, U.S. See also * * Boorger * Börger * Borge (disambiguation) * Børge * Burger (disambiguation) Burger or Burgers may refer to: Food and dri ...

(b. 1937), a jurist and banker.

References

1904 births 1972 deaths Sportspeople from Hamar Athletes from Innlandet Norwegian male long jumpers Norwegian male triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Norway 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub