 Kusnets circa 1930 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Albert Eduard Kusnets | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 August 1902 Suure-Kambja, Estonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1942 (aged 39–40) Verkhnyaya Toyma, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Kalev Tallinn Sport Tallinn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Albert Eduard Kusnets (25 August 1902 – 1942) was a middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Estonia. He competed in the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics and placed fourth and third, respectively. He won his 1928 bronze medal despite breaking a leg in 1928 and not competing until the Olympics. He earned three more medals at the European championships in 1927–1933. Kusnets missed the 1932 Olympics, because Estonia could not afford sending a team to Los Angeles during the Great Depression. After retiring in 1933 he worked as wrestling coach, and prepared the Olympic champion Kristjan Palusalu.
In 1941, he was sent to a Russian labor camp in Arkhangelsk Oblast, where he starved to death the next winter.
References
- "Albert Eduard Kusnetz". geni.com. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- "Albert Kusnets". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
- Kusnets, Albert (EST). iat.uni-leipzig.de
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Albert Kusnets". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- Kusnets, Albert. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon
- "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
External links
- Albert Kusnets at the International Wrestling Database
- Albert Kusnets at Olympedia
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