Jānis Ķipurs
Bobsleigh, Olympic athlete
1958 –
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Who is Jānis Ķipurs?
Jānis Ķipurs is a Latvian-born 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.
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 Soviet Union named the ice rink in his hometown of Sigulda.
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