Russian Athletics Championship 1916

The ongoing World War I was significantly influenced by the ongoing World War I. To participate in the championship athletes arrived only from 4 cities: Petrograd, Moscow, Revel and Riga. For the first time in history, not a single record of Russia was broken at the tournament. Nevertheless, several good results were shown. For the first time, the 17-year-old Estonian Alexander Klumberg from Kalev announced himself, having won the triple jump competition and took silver in the long jump. A few years later, he will become a world record holder and will win the bronze medal of the 1924 Olympic Games in decathlon. Alexander's teammate, Johann Willemson , who triumphed 1,500 meters for the third year in a row, confirmed his class. Three medals were won by Anton Ohaka , who became the two-time national champion in discus throw.

The prize of the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich for the victory in the team event went to the Kalev athletes from Revel .

The championship of 1916 was the last in the history of tsarist Russia. The next championship of the country took place only 4 years later in the midst of the Civil War . The Russian Championship as the main national tournament returned to the athletics calendar only in 1992, after the collapse of the USSR .

• USSR Championship in Athletics
• Russian Indoor Track and Field Championship 1992
• Russian Athletics Championship 1992

• Seleznev V., Khinchuk-Mikhailova G. At the beginning of the century. During the war: Year 1916 // Athletics. - 1991. - No. 12 (439) . - S. 12-13 .