Martin Kupper (born 31 May 1989, in

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 ...

) is an

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track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete who competes in the

discus throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight (object), weight called a discus in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors. It is a ...

. He has a personal best of , set in 2015. He is a member of the Audentese SK sports club. He competed in the discus as a teenager and began to improve in 2010, setting a best of and coming seventh at the Nordic Under-23 Athletics Championships. He cleared the sixty-metre mark for the first time in 2011 with a new best of and made his debut at continental level at the

2011 European Athletics U23 Championships The 8th European Athletics U23 Championships were held on 14–17 July 2011 in the Městský stadion (Ostrava), Městský stadion in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Russia topped the medal table with 20 medals in total, including 9 golds (after revision ...

(competing in the qualifiers only). He improved for a third successive season in 2012, having a best of at the Kohila leg of the series.Martin Kupper
Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2015-08-03. He threw beyond sixty metres to finish eighth at the

2013 European Cup Winter Throwing The 2013 European Cup Winter Throwing was held on 16 and 17 March at the Pista de Atletismo Universitat Jaume I and Complejo Deportivo Gaetà Huguet in Castellón, Spain. It was the thirteenth edition of the athletics competition in throwing ev ...

then had a throw of in August, which ranked him 22nd on the global seasonal lists. He made his debut at the European Championships in 2014 and finished the competition in ninth place. His best that year was , putting him 26th globally. He put himself at the top of the seasonal lists at the start of the following year with a win at the 2015 European Cup Winter Throwing – his first international medal. He began to compete on the

2015 IAAF Diamond League The 2015 IAAF Diamond League was the sixth season of the annual series of outdoor track and field meetings, organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). It consisted of fourteen one-day meetings, starting on 15 May ...

circuit and had fourth-place finishes in

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and

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. Further fourth places came at the

FBK Games The Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, abbreviated as FBK Games, is an annual track and field event at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion in Hengelo, Netherlands. It is named after Fanny Blankers-Koen in 1981, but was named Adriaan Paulen Memorial after A ...

, the

2015 European Team Championships The sixth European Athletics Team Championships took place on 20 and 21 June 2015. Super League Place: Central Stadium, Cheboksary, Russia Participating countries * * * * * * * * * * * * * Belarus, Finland and Norway were promoted from 2014 F ...

(1st League)Martin Kupper
Diamond League. Retrieved on 2015-08-03. and the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, with a throw at .

International competitions

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kupper, Martin 1989 births Living people Athletes from Tallinn Estonian male discus throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Estonia Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Estonia 21st-century Estonian sportsmen