Albert Eduard Kusnets (25 August 1902 – 1942) was a middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from

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. He competed in the

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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

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during the Great Depression. After retiring in 1933 he worked as wrestling coach, and prepared the Olympic champion

Kristjan Palusalu Kristjan Palusalu (until 1935 Kristjan Trossmann, – 17 July 1987) was an Estonian heavyweight wrestler and Olympic winner. Palusalu became the first and only wrestler in Olympic history ever to win both the Greco-Roman and freestyle heavy wei ...

. 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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