August "Guus" Scheffer (24 November 1898 – 1 November 1952) was a Dutch

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

. He competed at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics in the lightweight and middleweight categories and finished in seventh and third place, respectively.

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1898 births 1952 deaths Dutch male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of the Netherlands Weightlifters at the 1924 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Haarlem Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics 19th-century Dutch people 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub