August Englas

August Englas, Russian Аугуст Петрович Энглас / August Petrovich Englas, (* January 31, 1925 in Hof Viksi Pühajärv, today rural community Otepaeae, Valga County, Estonia) is a former Soviet wrestler Estonian origin.

Career

August Englas comes from Pühajärv in Estonia. As an eleven year old boy he was of the victories Kristjan Palusalus at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin so much that he decided to also be a wrestler. As he already had excellent performance in youth, he moved to " Kalev " and got there in Tallinn Edgar Puusepp and Boris Sülluste excellent trainer who took him to the Estonian and Soviet -class light heavyweight. In 1948 he was Estonian Champion and 1949 Soviet champion in free style for the first time. In international championships but he could only show his skills in 1952, because the Soviet Union, took part in such only as of this year, with one exception in 1947. He was used by the Soviet Union at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki in the light heavyweight, free style, but was defeated after three wins the experienced Olympic champion of 1948 Henry Wittenberg from the U.S. and the is located ligands in the form of his life Viking Palm from Sweden and occupied so just the disappointing him for fourth place. How much in the Soviet Union, but his skill has been estimated, the fact that it was used in 1953 at the World Championships in Naples in the Greco- Roman style. He justified this confidence by winning the world title, which he won in Tokyo in 1954 and in free style. In the following years he was still several times Estonian champion, but could not prevail against his strong Soviet opponents. In 1959 he ended his active career Ringer.

He worked until he was 80 years as a coach in Tallinn and is highly honored in Estonia today. For his 75th birthday he received a prestigious award from President Lennart Meri.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = Freestyle, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, Hs = light heavyweight, then to 87 kg body weight)

Main countries fighting

Soviet Championships

He also won seven times 1948-1959, the Estonian Championship in free and Greco- Roman style.