Jānis Ķipurs
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's Bobsleigh | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1988 Calgary | Two-man | |
1988 Calgary | Four-man | |
World Championships | ||
1989 Cortina d'Ampezzo | Two-man | |
World Cup Championships | ||
1987–88 | Two-man | |
1987–88 | Combined |
Jānis Ķipurs (sometimes shown as Yanis Kipurs or Janis Kipurs, born 3 January 1958 in Kurmene, Kurmene parish) is a Latvian bobsledder who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, he won two medals with a gold in the two-man event and a bronze in the four-man event.[1]
Ķipurs also won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1989 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
He won the two-man Bobsleigh World Cup championship in 1987–88.
Because of his successes, the ice rink in his hometown of Sigulda (now part of Latvia) was named in his honor.
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jānis Ķipurs Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
External links
[edit]- Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964[dead link ]
- Bobsleigh four-man Olympic medalists for 1924, 1932-56, and since 1964
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- List of combined men's bobsleigh World Cup champions: 1985-2007
- List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- People from Bauska Municipality
- Soviet male bobsledders
- Latvian male bobsledders
- Bobsledders at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Olympic bobsledders for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
- Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Russian bobsleigh biography stubs
- Soviet Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- European bobsleigh biography stubs
- Latvian winter sports biography stubs