Jüri Lossmann

Jüri Lossmann ( – 1 May 1984) was an Estonian long-distance runner. He finished second in the marathon at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at 2:32:48.6, trailing Hannes Kolehmainen by 13 seconds, but beating the third-placed Valerio Arri by almost 4 minutes. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, he was the flag bearer for Estonia and finished tenth in the marathon.

Biography Lossmann started as a football player for Merkur club before changing to athletics. He was wounded in World War I, but recovered and, in 1916, won a marathon race in Tallinn and the Russian Championships in the 5000 m. In 1923, he won the international marathon in Gothenburg, Sweden, and in 1928, he ran the first leg of the Trans America Run. Next year he set an Estonian record in one-hour running and competed in the Antwerp marathon.