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The 4th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held at the Skydome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from March 12 to March 14, 1993. It was the last Indoor Championships to feature the 5,000 and 3,000 metres race walk events. In addition, it was the first Indoor Championships to include heptathlon and pentathlon, albeit as non-championship events. There were a total number of 537 athletes participated from 93 countries.
Estonia competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. It was the last time that Estonia competed at the Summer Games as an independent nation until the 1992 Summer Olympics. After the nation was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, a number of Estonian athletes competed as part of the USSR delegations at the Summer Olympic games from 1952 to 1988.
Jaak Uudmäe is an Estonian former triple jumper and long jumper who competed for the Soviet Union. He was the gold medalist at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He set a personal best of 17.35 m in his Olympic victory – a mark which remains the Estonian record.
Nikolai Stepulov was an Estonian lightweight boxer, military officer and criminal. As a boxer he won silver medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and 1937 European Championships, and fought professionally in 1938–39. During World War II, after the Soviet invasion of Estonia in 1940, Stepulov, an ethnic Russian, joined the Soviet militia and initiated the extrajudicial killing of a number of imprisoned members of the Estonian Defense League; this act was condemned by both sides and resulted in Stepulov serving a jail sentence in the Soviet Union. Later after returning to Soviet-controlled Estonia he was arrested a few times for burglary and died in a Soviet prison hospital.
The Estonian Athletic Association is the governing body for the sport of athletics in Estonia.
Argo Golberg is an Estonian sprinter.
Linda Ojastu was an Estonian athletics competitor.
Rene Oruman is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Toomas Tarm is an Estonian long-distance runner.
Margus Pirksaar is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Henno Haava is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Rein Valdmaa is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Toomas Turb is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Heiki Sarapuu is a retired Estonian athletics competitor.
Martin Vihmann is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Liina Tšernov is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Veljo Lamp is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Aivar Ojastu is an Estonian athletics competitor.
Enn Lilienthal is an Estonian athletics competitor.