Jānis Ķipurs

Jānis Ķipurs ( born March 3, 1958 in Kurmene, Aizkraukle County ) is a former Latvian bobsledder who competed for the Soviet Union.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988, he won with his brakeman Vladimir Kozlov the gold medal in two-man bob. In the large carriage he took the bronze medal with his team. Kipurs benefited from the efforts of the Soviet Union in the eighties. Thus, an artificial ice rink was built in his Latvian homeland in Sigulda. In addition, included the Soviet bobs, the so-called " Russian cigars ," the leading constructions.

List of Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Hubert Stevens Ivan Brown Alan Washbond Friedrich Waller Lorenz Nieberl Lamberto Dalla Costa Giacomo Conti (bobsleigh) Tony Nash (bobsledder) Eugenio Monti Luciano De Paolis Wolfgang Zimmerer Peter Utzschneider Meinhard Nehmer Bernhard Germeshausen Wolfgang Hoppe Dietmar Schauerhammer Gustav Weder Donat Acklin Pierre Lueders Christoph Langen Markus Zimmermann Kevin Kuske Alexandr Zubkov Alexey Voyevoda Erwin Thaler Adolf Koxeder Pepi Bader Bernhard Lehmann Bogdan Musiol Olaf Hampel Christian Reich Marco Jakobs Christoph Heyder Martin Putze Beat Hefti Thomas Lamparter
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