Eduard Pütsep
Eduard Pütsep ( born October 21, 1898 in Vastseliina Vald; † August 22, 1960 in Kuusamo, Finland) was an Estonian wrestler and coach.
Career
Eduard Pütsep began in his hometown with the rings, moved to the first major successes for Sport Club Kalev Tallinn, where he developed into a world-class wrestler in Greco- Roman style. In 1920, Pütsep part in the Olympic Games in Antwerp, reaching this featherweight three wins fifth place with 21 participants. In 1921 he was Estonian champion at featherweight for the first time. In the same year Pütsep launched at the World Championships in Helsinki in spring weight. The regulations had not yet matured. So Pütsep came with three wins and three losses to fourth place, with the wrestler against which he lost, Kalle Anttila and Aleksanteri Toivola from Finland and Erik Malmberg from Sweden, all very successful wrestlers were World and European Championships in the Olympic Games. 1922 were carried out in Stockholm again World Championships, before there was a long pause until 1950. Pütsep had compared to previous years, again greatly improved, and came into the newly introduced bantamweight class with notable victories over Kaarlo Mäkinen from Finland and Aage Torgensen from Denmark to second place.
1924 Eduard Pütsep celebrated the greatest success of his wrestler 's career. With six victories, he was at the Olympic Games in Paris in superior style champion bantamweight. His toughest rivals were doing Anselm Ahlfors and Väinö icons, both from Finland, but his victory could not prevent. The next time you start at an international championship Pütsep completed only at the European Championships 1927 in Budapest. He suffered in the final defeat against the spirited Italian Giovanni Gozzi and came in second place.
At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 Pütsep arrive first three victories. He had then but after a surprising loss to Hermann Andersen retire from Denmark due to attainment of six failed points, although among the defeated him wrestlers who later became Olympic champion Kurt Lamp from Germany was. In the final account, he ended up in sixth place. Pütsep also took part in the freestyle competition at featherweight, but did not get beyond a first round defeat against the British Harold Angus.
Eduard Pütsep ended after his career as an active wrestler and 1930 coach of the Latvian national team, Ringer. He took it as Albert Ringer Zvejnieks, George Ozoliòš and especially Edvin Bietags in the European top class. 1939 left Eduard Pütsep Estonia and lived until his death in 1960 in Kuusamo.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greco-Roman style, FS = freestyle, Ba = bantamweight, featherweight = Fe, then to 58 kg or 62 kg body weight)
Swell
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976