Verners Auls took up figure skating in the late 1920s where he finished third at the Latvian championships in 1929. Auls soon became the best figure skater in the country and won three consecutive titles from 1930 to 1932, followed by a fourth title in 1934. He competed at multiple competitions across Europe and was selected to skate at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Olympics. By this time he was 46-years-old and, combined with a poor level of investment in the sport in Latvia, he finished 25th and last. Undeterred with his poor performance at the Olympics, Auls was one of the founders of the Rīga Ledus klubs in 1932 where he also served as a board member. At the start of World War II he moved to Germany as part of the mass exodus of Baltic Germans who emigrated from Latvia and Estonia.
Latvia