Jānis Ķipurs

Jānis Ķipurs (sometimes shown as Yanis Kipurs or ānisĶJanis 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.

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.

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Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964

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

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