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-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).