Albert Kusnets

{{Short description|Estonian wrestler (1902–1942)}}

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{{Infobox sportsperson

| image=Albert Kusnets.jpg

| caption=Kusnets circa 1930

| birth_name=Albert Eduard Kusnets

| birth_date = 25 August 1902{{cite web|title=Albert Eduard Kusnetz|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Albert-Eduard-Kusnetz/6000000018751299302|publisher=geni.com|accessdate=28 July 2017}}

| birth_place = Suure-Kambja, Estonia

| death_date = {{death year and age|1942|1902}}

| death_place = Verkhnyaya Toyma, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

| sport = Greco-Roman wrestling

| club = Kalev Tallinn
Sport Tallinn

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalSport | Men's Greco-Roman wrestling }}

{{MedalCountry | {{flagicon|Estonia}} Estonia }}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

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{{MedalBronze | 1928 Amsterdam | 75 kg }}

{{MedalCompetition | European Championships }}

{{MedalSilver | 1927 Budapest | 75 kg }}

{{MedalSilver | 1931 Prague | 75 kg }}

{{MedalBronze | 1933 Helsinki | 75 kg }}

}}

Albert Eduard Kusnets (25 August 1902 – 1942) was a middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Estonia.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/57818 |title=Albert Kusnets |work=Olympedia |access-date=9 December 2021}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}