Ainārs Podnieks (born October 13, 1980) is a
Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to t ...
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bobsled
Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobs ...
der who competed from 2003 to 2009. World junior champion in four man 2004 His best
Bobsleigh World Cup finish was second in the four-man event at
Lake Placid in December 2006.
Podnieks also finished seventh in the four-man event at the
2007 FIBT World Championships in
St. Moritz
St. Moritz ( , , ; ; ; ; ) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in the administrative region of Maloja in the Swiss ...
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References
FIBT profile
External links
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1980 births
Latvian male bobsledders
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
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