Dzintars Krišjānis (4 June 1958 – 16 March 2014) was a Latvian former

rower Rowing, sometimes called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars are attached to the boat using oarlocks, while paddles are not connected to the boat. Rowing is ...

who competed for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

in the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

. He was born in

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

and was the older brother of

Dimants Krišjānis Dimants Krišjānis (born 15 September 1960), also known as Dimants Yutvaldovich Krishyanis (russian: Димантс Ютвальдович Кришьянис), is a Latvian former rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer ...

. In 1980 he was a crew member of the Soviet boat which won the silver medal in the coxed fours event.

References

Dzintars Krišjānis' profile at Sports Reference.comDzintars Krišjānis' obituary
1958 births 2014 deaths Latvian male rowers Russian male rowers Soviet male rowers Olympic rowers for the Soviet Union Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Sportspeople from Riga Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union {{Latvia-rowing-bio-stub