Leonid Saar (15 February 1913, in

Mõisaküla Mõisaküla ( lv, Muižciems; Meizakila) is a town in southern Estonia, part of Mulgi Parish of Viljandi County, just next to the border of Latvia. It is considered to be the smallest town in Estonia. The town has 32 streets, with the total le ...

– 26 January 2010, in

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, Georgia, USA) was an Estonian

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player, ice hockey player, and footballer. He competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics on the

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. Saar studied at the

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's Faculty of Law between 1934 and 1943. Saar initially played football for Tallinna SK Siirius and in 1938 and 1942, was part of the team that were the winners of the

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. He later trained and played ice hockey under the supervision of Heinrich Paal. Saar was a member of the

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eight times, and both the Estonia men's national basketball team and Estonia national football team twice. Following the

Soviet occupation of Estonia The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an ethnically based adminis ...

in 1944, Saar fled to Sweden, then to Canada in 1951. He later settled in the United States.

References

1913 births 2010 deaths Estonian men's basketball players Olympic basketball players of Estonia Basketball players at the 1936 Summer Olympics Estonian footballers Estonian ice hockey players University of Tartu alumni Estonian World War II refugees Estonian emigrants to the United States People from Mulgi Parish Association footballers not categorized by position {{Estonia-basketball-bio-stub