Peter Lesser

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Peter Lesser
Lesser in Oberhof, 1963
Country	East Germany
Born	(1941-08-15) 15 August 1941 (age 83) Eisenberg, Nazi Germany
Ski club	SC Motor Zella-Mehlis
Personal best	145 m (476 ft) Tauplitz, Austria (21 March 1965)

Peter Lesser (born 15 August 1941) is an East German former ski jumper.

In 1962 at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane, he reached fifth place on the large hill.^[1]

He improved world record two times; 141 metres (463 ft) in 1962 and 145.5 metres (477 ft) in 1965, both on Kulm ski flying hill in Tauplitz/Bad Mitterndorf, Austria.^[2][3][4][5]

  Not recognized! Crash at world record distance.^[6]

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• Peter Lesser at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation
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