Arild Lenth (20 November 1904 – 28 March 1972) was a

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe *Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway *Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including the ...

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

er and

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er. His personal best long jump was 7.18 metres, achieved in July 1928 on

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. In August 1928 at the same stadium he jumped 14.11 metres in the triple jump, another career best. At the

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he competed in the long and triple jump. In the

he achieved 6.60 metres and failed to reach the final; in the

he achieved 13.39 metres and again failed to reach the final. He became Norwegian champion in the long jump in 1928 and 1929, representing

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. He also won the national bronze medal in 1927. He became Norwegian triple jump champion once, in 1928. He did not hold the triple jump club record in Hamar IL, as Lauritz G. Bryhn had jumped 14.28 metres in 1921. Lenth chaired the club Hamar IL from 1946 to 1947. Together with Guri Bakke (1910–1989) he had the son Borger Arildssøn Lenth (b. 1937), a jurist and banker.

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1904 births 1972 deaths Sportspeople from Hamar Norwegian male long jumpers Norwegian male triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Norway 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-athletics-bio-stub