Arnold Viiding

Arnold Viiding was an Estonian shot putter and discus thrower. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, he achieved eighth place in the Athletics at the [1936 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put|shot put event] with 15.23 metres.

Biography

Viiding graduated from the Tallinn Police School in 1932 and worked as a policeman. In 1936, he joined the academic corporation Fraternitas Estica. In 1940, he graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tartu. After the German occupation of [Estonia during World War II|Nazi occupation] in 1941 during the Second World War, Viiding served as the chief of the police school of the Estonian [Security Police and SD|Estonian Security Police].
In 1944, Viiding fled the Soviet occupation of Estonia and emigrated first to Germany and in 1949 to Australia. Along with other Estonians, he established a plastics factory, "Arnolds Plastics".