Eduard Pütsep

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|birth_date={{birth date|1898|10|21|df=yes}}

|birth_place= Vastseliina Parish, Kreis Werro, Governorate of Estonia

|death_date={{death date and age|1960|8|22|1898|10|21|df=yes}}

|death_place= Kuusamo, Finland

| sport = Greco-Roman wrestling

|club=Kalev Tallinn

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Eduard Pütsep (21 October 1898 – 22 August 1960) was an Estonian wrestler.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/57829 |title=Eduard Pütsep |work=Olympedia |access-date=11 September 2021}} He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympics and won a gold medal in the bantamweight division in 1924, becoming the first Olympic champion in wrestling from Estonia. In 1928 he placed sixth in Greco-Roman and ninth in freestyle wrestling.

Career

Eduard Pütsep was born in Vastseliina Parish (present-day Võru Parish). He took up wrestling during World War I and in 1917 placed third at the Russian championships. At his first international competition, the 1920 Olympics, he lost in a semifinal to the eventual silver medalist Heikki Kähkönen. Next year he finished fourth at the world championships, and in 1922 won a silver medal. He retired from competitions in 1933 and attended the 1936 Summer Olympics as the head coach of the Latvian wrestling team. During World War II he moved to Finland and continued to coach wrestlers there. Since 1977 an annual international wrestling tournament in his honor has been held in Võru, Estonia.

Pütsep could communicate in eight languages. Yet during his wrestling years he acted in silent films, and was nicknamed "Estonian Chaplin".{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} In 1924, he starred in Õnnelik korterikriisi lahendus, directed by Konstantin Märska, and in 1925 played in Tšeka komissar Miroštšenko.

References

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418113102/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pu/eduard-putsep-1.html Eduard Pütsep]. sports-reference.com

[http://www.eok.ee/eng/7819 PÜTSEP, Eduard]. Estonian Olympic Committee

[http://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Eduard_Pütsep Pütsep, Eduard]. Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon

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External links

{{Olympics.com|eduard-putsep}}
{{ESBL profile|Eduard_Pütsep}}
{{EOK profile|7819}}
{{Webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20130106141227/http://www.filmi.arhiiv.ee/index.php?is_inc=galerii&lang=eng&separ_l=1&show=fotonaitused&gid=24 |date=6 January 2013 |title=Eduard Pütsep at the Estonian Film Archives}}

Category:1898 births

Category:1960 deaths

Category:People from Võru Parish

Category:Sportspeople from Võru County

Category:People from Kreis Werro

Category:Wrestlers at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Category:Wrestlers at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Category:Wrestlers at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Category:Estonian male sport wrestlers

Category:Olympic wrestlers for Estonia

Category:Olympic gold medalists for Estonia

Category:Olympic medalists in wrestling