August Kilart

Biographical information

RolesNon-starter
SexMale
Full nameAugust•Kilart
Used nameAugust•Kilart
Other namesAvgust Ansovich Kilart, Август Ансович Киларт
Born25 May 1884 in Tukums, Tukuma novads (LAT)
Died24 December 1943 (aged 59 years 6 months 30 days) in Vyatlag Prison Camp, Kirov (RUS)
AffiliationsUnion Vindava, Ventspils (LAT)
NOC Russian Federation
Nationality Latvia

Biography

August Kilart was a Latvian track and field athlete representing the “Union” club in Vindava (now Ventspils) who won the Russian shot put championship in 1910. He was entered as a member of the Russian team for the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm to compete in the shot put and discus throw but did not start.

Kilart worked as a sausage maker in Venspilts, when he was arrested by the secret service NKVD and sentenced in 1942 to eight years in a labour camp for “anti-Soviet agitation”. He died on Christmas Eve 1943 at the Vyatka Corrective Labour Camp near Kirov.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal Nationality As
1912 Summer Olympics Athletics RUS LAT August Kilart
Shot Put, Men (Olympic) DNS
Discus Throw, Men (Olympic) DNS