Georg Baumann (1 September 1892 – before 19 February 1934) was an

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who competed for the

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, and was world champion in

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Biography

He competed in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition along with two other Estonians, August Kippasto and Oskar Kaplur, at the

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, where he was eliminated after losing against later winner

Emil Väre Emil Ernst Väre (28 September 1885 – 31 January 1974) was a Finnish wrestler who won the gold medals in the lightweight class at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VI ...

and Johan Alfred Salonen. He was the lightweight class World champion at the 1913 Wrestling World Championships in Breslau. In the same year, he won a gold in the Russian Olympiad and was awarded the title of Best Amateur Wrestler of the

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. Although some sources claim that he was killed during

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there are reports of him moving to China in 1922 where he worked as wrestler and circus artist. His death was reported in the Russian language Chinese newspaper '' Shanghaiskaya Zarya'' on 19 February 1934.

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* * 1892 births 1930s missing person cases Estonian male sport wrestlers Missing person cases in China Olympic wrestlers for the Russian Empire People declared dead in absentia Place of death unknown Russian male sport wrestlers World Wrestling Championships medalists Wrestlers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Year of death missing 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Estonia-wrestling-bio-stub