Eric Lemming biography
Eric Lemming, in full Eric Otto Valdemar Lemming, Eric additionally spelled Erik, (born Feb. 22, 1880, Gothenburg, Swed.—died June 5, 1930, Gothenburg), Swedish track-and-field athlete who was the primary nice javelin thrower of the fashionable period. He gained gold medals within the first two Olympic javelin contests.
Lemming was the best of the Scandinavian athletes who dominated the javelin throw within the early twentieth century. A really robust javelin thrower expert in each the fashionable model (with the grip in the course of the javelin shaft) and freestyle (usually utilizing a rear grip), he set his first world report in 1899, hurling the javelin 49.32 metres (161 ft 9 3/4inches). He exceeded 50 metres (164 ft) together with his subsequent world report, in 1902. At the 1906 Intercalated Games in Athens, Lemming broke his personal world report with a throw greater than 8 metres (26 ft 3 inches) farther than his nearest opponent.
Lemming gained a gold medal for the javelin throw on the 1908 Olympics in London. Four years later, performing within the Olympics at Stockholm, he turned the primary man to throw a javelin over 60 metres (196 ft 8 1/2inches), profitable one other gold medal. Three days later Julius Saaristo turned the primary to throw a javelin 61 metres (200 ft), however he was aided by a powerful wind and his throw was not acknowledged as a world report. In that very same 12 months, once more in Stockholm, Lemming made his best throw, 62.32 metres (204 ft 51/2inches).
