Jānis Ķipurs
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Representing the  Soviet Union |
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1988 Calgary | Two-man |
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1988 Calgary | Four-man |
| World Championships | ||
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1989 Cortina d'Ampezzo | Two-man |
| World Cup Championships | ||
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1987-88 | Two-man |
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1987-88 | Combined |
Jānis Ķipurs (sometimes shown as Yanis Kipurs or Janis Kipurs, born 3 January 1958 in Kurmene, Kurmene parish) 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 (now part of Latvia).
References
- 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
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