August Kiuru

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Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Silver	1948 St. Moritz	4 x 10 km
Silver	1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	4 x 10 km
World Championships
Gold	1954 Falun	4 x 10 km
Silver	1950 Lake Placid	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1954 Falun	15 km

August Kiuru (born July 12, 1922) is a former Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1940's and early 1950's. He won two silver medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1948 Winter Olympics and the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Kiuru also won three medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 x 10 km (1954), a silver in the 4 x 10km (1950) and a bronze in the 15km (1954).

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• FIS profile

World champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay

1933 Sweden Per Erik Hedlund, Sven Utterström, Nils-Joel Englund, & Hjalmar Bergström 1934 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Martti Lappalainen, & Veli Saarinen 1935 Finland Mikko Husu, Klaes Karppinen, Väinö Liikkanen, & Sulo Nurmela 1937 Norway Annar Ryen, Oskar Fredriksen, Sigurd Røen, & Lars Bergendahl 1938 Finland Jussi Kurikkala, Martti Lauronen, Pauli Pitkänen, & Klaes Karppinen 1939 Finland Pauli Pitkänen, Olavi Alakulppi, Eino Olkinuora, & Klaes Karppinen 1950 Sweden Nils Täpp, Karl-Erik Åström, Martin Lundström, & Enar Josefsson 1954 Finland August Kiuru, Tapio Mäkelä, Arvo Viitanen, & Veikko Hakulinen 1958 Sweden Sixten Jernberg, Lennart Larsson, Sture Grahn, & Per-Erik Larsson 1962 Sweden Lars Olsson, Sture Grahn, Sixten Jernberg, & Assar Rönnlund 1966 Norway Odd Martinsen, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter, & Gjermund Eggen 1970 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Valeriy Tarakanov, Fyodor Simashev & Vyacheslav Vedenin 1974 East Germany Gerd Hessler, Dieter Meinel, Gerhard Grimmer & Gert-Dietmar Klause 1978 Sweden Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Christer Johannson, Tommy Linnby & Thomas Magnusson 1982 Norway Lars-Erik Eriksen, Ove Aunli, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, & Oddvar Brå 1982 Soviet Union Vladimir Nikitin, Aleksandr Batyuk, Yuriy Burlakov, & Aleksandr Savyalov 1985 Norway Arild Monsen, Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Tor Håkon Holte, & Ove Aunli 1987 Sweden Erik Östlund, Gunde Svan, Thomas Wassberg, & Torgny Mogren 1989 Sweden Christer Majbäck, Gunde Svan, Lars Håland, & Torgny Mogren 1991 Norway Øyvind Skaanes, Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, & Bjørn Dæhlie 1993 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Vegard Ulvang, Terje Langli, & Bjørn Dæhlie 1995 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard 1997 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard 1999 Austria Markus Gandler, Alois Stadlober, Mikhail Botvinov, & Christian Hoffman 2001 Norway Frode Estil, Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Thomas Alsgaard, & Tor Arne Hetland 2003 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Tore Ruud Hofstad, & Thomas Alsgaard 2005 Norway Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset, Frode Estil, Lars Berger, & Tore Ruud Hofstad