Egon Roolaid
{{short description|Estonian swimmer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2016}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name=
| birth_name = Egon Rosenberg
| image=Egon Roolaid.jpg
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| sport=Swimming
| event = 100–400 m freestyle
| pb = 100 m 1:01.1 (1939)
200 m – 2:21.4 (1939)
400 m – 5:06.8 (1938)
| club = Kalev Tallinn
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|birth_date=26 September 1918
| birth_place = Tallinn, Estonia
|death_date= 1943
| death_place = Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
| height = 177 cm
| weight = 75 kg
| show-medals = yes
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Egon Roolaid (born Rosenberg, 26 September 1918 – c. 1943) was an Estonian freestyle swimmer. He competed in the 100 m event at the 1936 Summer Olympics, alongside his brother Boris, but failed to reach the final.
Roolaid took up swimming in 1932, and between 1934 and 1940 won 19 national titles. In 1941 both brothers were sent to Soviet labor camps, where they died in 1942–43.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}} Egon was rehabilitated in 1989.
References
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[http://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Egon_Roolaid Roolaid, Egon]. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon
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Category:Swimmers from Tallinn
Category:Estonian male freestyle swimmers
Category:Olympic swimmers for Estonia
Category:Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:People who died in the Gulag
Category:Estonian Gulag detainees
Category:Estonian people who died in Soviet detention
Category:Soviet rehabilitations
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