Albert Kusnets

Albert Kusnets
Kusnets circa 1930
Personal information
Birth name Albert Eduard Kusnets
Born 12 August 1902[1]
Suure-Kambja, Estonia
Died 1942 (aged 39–40)
Verkhnyaya Toyma, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Sport
Sport Greco-Roman wrestling
Club Kalev Tallinn
Sport Tallinn
Medal record
Representing Estonia Estonia
Olympic Games
1928 Amsterdam -75 kg
European Championships
1927 Budapest -75 kg
1931 Prague -75 kg
1933 Helsinki -75 kg

Albert Eduard Kusnets (12 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.[2] 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.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ↑ "Albert Eduard Kusnetz". geni.com. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
  2. ↑ Kusnets, Albert (EST). iat.uni-leipzig.de
  3. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Albert Kusnets". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
  4. ↑ Kusnets, Albert. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon
  5. ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Retrieved 24 July 2018.


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