Albert Eduard Kusnets (25 August 1902 – 1942) was a middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Estonia. He competed in the 1924 and

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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

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. 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

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, where he starved to death the next winter.

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* 1902 births 1942 deaths Wrestlers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Estonian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Estonia Olympic bronze medalists for Estonia Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Deaths by starvation Estonian people who died in Soviet detention People who died in the Gulag Estonian Gulag detainees People from Kambja Parish Sportspeople from Tartu County European Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Estonian sportsmen {{Estonia-Olympic-medalist-stub