Albert Kusnets, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Olympic wrestler from Estonia
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Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia
About Albert Kusnets
- 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.
- 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.
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