August Englas

August Englas
Medal record
Competitor for  Soviet Union
Men’s Greco-Roman Wrestling
World Championships
Gold 1953 Naples 87 kg
Men’s freestyle wrestling
World Championships
Gold 1954 Tokyo 87 kg
August Englas and Heiki Nabi

August Englas (Russian: Аугуст Петрович Энглас; born January 15, 1925) is an Estonian former wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union.

Englas was born in Otepää. In the 1952 Summer Olympics, after defeating Adil Atan, Shirang Vithoba Jadav and Max Leichter, and losing against Henry Wittenberg and Viking Palm, he took fourth place.[1] He won the gold medal at the 1953 and 1954 World Championship.

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