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Place of Birth: Vastseliina Rural Municipality, Võru County, Estonia
About Eduard Pütsep
- Eduard Pütsep (21 October 1898 – 22 August 1960) was an Estonian wrestler.
- 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.Pütsep 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".
- In 1924, he starred in Õnnelik korterikriisi lahendus, directed by Konstantin Märska, and in 1925 played in Tšeka komissar Miroštšenko.
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