Mart Kuusik

Hugo Maksimilian "Mart" Kuusik (born December 9, 1877 in Narva , Russian Empire , † August 24, 1965 in Battle Ground , Indiana , United States ) was an Estonian rower starting for Russia .

The 1.73 m tall Kuusik began rowing at the Pernau Rowing Club in Pärnu , and in 1912 he belonged to the Kalev St. Petersburg rowing club .

The Russian Empire first took part in the Olympic Games with four athletes in 1900 , and in 1908 six athletes took part. The Russian Empire sent 159 participants to the 1912 Olympic Games . Mart Kuusik was the first - and until 1996 the only - rower who competed for Russia at the Olympic Games.

To compete in the one occurred in the Olympic regatta in 1912 in Stockholm in thirteen rowers. Two rowers met each other, the winner reached the next round. Kuusik had to face the Austrian Alfred Heinrich twice in the first round . He won the first race, Heinrich was disqualified in the repeat race. After Kuusik had beaten the Hungarian Károly Levitzky in the quarter-finals , he lost to the Belgian Polydore Veirman in the semi-finals . In the other semifinals, Briton William Kinnear won against Canadian Everard Butler , in the final Kinnear won against Veirman. Only the finalists received medals; by today's standards, the two third-placed Kuusik and Butler would each have received a bronze medal.

Kuusik later emigrated to the United States.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz : The games of the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912 . AGON Sportverlag Kassel 2009 ISBN 978-3-89784-364-6

Web links

• Mart Kuusik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ^ According to Karl Lennartz The Games of the 5th Olympiad in Stockholm in 1912 p. 226. According to Volker Kluge, Chronicle I, p. 346, there were 14 athletes, the Bohemian I. Swiss is not listed by Lennartz.