Albert Kusnets

Albert Kusnets

Personal information
Born	1902 Tallinn, 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 Olympic Games 1928 Amsterdam -75 kg European Championships 1927 Budapest -75 kg 1931 Prague -75 kg 1933 Helsinki -75 kg

Albert Kusnets (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.^[1] 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 next year.^[2][3]

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