Eduard Pütsep

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 started wrestling in his hometown, after his first major successes he switched to the Kalev Tallinn sports club , where he developed into a world-class wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. In 1920 Pütsep took part in the Olympic Games in Antwerp and reached the featherweight division with three wins in fifth place out of 21 participants. In 1921 he became the first Estonian featherweight champion. In the same year Pütsep started at the Featherweight World Championships in Helsinki . At that time, the regulations were not yet fully developed. So Pütsep came fourth with three wins and three defeats, whereby the wrestlers he lost, Kalle Anttila and Aleksanteri Toivola from Finland and Erik Malmberg from Sweden , were all very successful wrestlers at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships. World championships were held again in Stockholm in 1922 before a long break until 1950. Pütsep had once again improved significantly compared to previous years and came in second in the newly introduced bantamweight class with remarkable victories over Kaarlo Mäkinen from Finland and Aage Torgensen from Denmark .

In 1924 Eduard Pütsep celebrated the greatest success of his wrestling career. With six wins he was the bantamweight winner in superior style at the Olympic Games in Paris . His toughest rivals were Anselm Ahlfors and Väinö Ikonen , both from Finland, who could not prevent his victory. The next start at an international championship Pütsep completed only at the European championship in Budapest in 1927 . He suffered a defeat in the final against the spirited Italian Giovanni Gozzi and came in second.

At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , Pütsep initially achieved three victories. However, after a surprising defeat against Hermann Andersen from Denmark, he had to retire because he had scored six missing points, although the later Olympic champion Kurt Leucht from Germany was among the wrestlers he defeated . In the final accounts, he landed in sixth place. Pütsep also took part in the featherweight freestyle competition, but did not get beyond a first round defeat against British Harold Angus .

Eduard Pütsep then ended his career as an active wrestler and in 1930 became the coach of the Latvian national wrestling team. He led wrestlers like Alberts Zvejnieks , Georgs Ozoliņš and, above all, Edvīns Bietags in the European top class. Eduard Pütsep left Estonia in 1939 and lived in Kuusamo, Finland, until his death in 1960.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, FS = freestyle, Ba = bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 58 kg or 62 kg body weight)

• 1920, 5th place , OS in Antwerp , GR, Fe, with victories over Henri Dierickx , Belgium , Wilhelm Olsen , Norway and Josef Beránek , Czechoslovakia and defeats to Heikki Kähkönen , Finland and Aage Torgensen , Denmark ;
• 1921, 4th place , World Championships in Helsinki , GR, Fe, with victories over Ilmari Kinnunen, Jaakko Sole and Arvo Kangas, all Finland and defeats against Kalle Anttila and Aleksanteri Toivola , bde. Finland and Erik Malmberg , Sweden ;
• 1922, 2nd place , World Championship in Stockholm , GR, Ba, with victories over Bjarne Pedersen, Norway, Väinö Ikonen , Finland, Ruben Scheftelowitz, Denmark, Kaarlo Mäkinen , Finland and Aage Torgensen and one defeat against Fritjof Svensson , Sweden;
• 1924, gold medal , OS in Paris , GR, Ba, with victories over Antonín Skopový , Czechoslovakia , Pierre Slock , Belgium, Väinö Ikonen and Anselm Ahlfors , both Finland, Sigfrid Hansson , Sweden and Armand Magyar , Hungary ;
• 1927, 2nd place , EM in Budapest , GR, Ba, with victories over Fritz Maier , Germany , Josef Mayerhuber, Austria , Jan Bózdech, Czechoslovakia and Armand Magyar and one defeat against Giovanni Gozzi , Italy ;
• 1928, 6th place , OS in Amsterdam , GR, Ba, with victories over Johannes van Maaren , Belgium, Georges Miller , Luxembourg and Kurt Leucht , Germany and one defeat against Hermann Andersen , Denmark
• 1928, 9th place , OS in Amsterdam , FS, Fe, losing to Harold Angus , United Kingdom

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Profile of Eduard Pütsep at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Eduard Pütsep in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sports achievements and photo (Estonian)