Jānis Ķipurs (sometimes shown as Yanis Kipurs or Janis Kipurs, born 3 January 1958 in Kurmene,

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) is a

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der who competed for the

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in the late 1980s. At the

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, 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

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. He won the two-man

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championship in 1987–88. Because of his successes, the ice rink in his hometown of

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(now part of

) 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

List of combined men's bobsleigh World Cup champions: 1985-2007

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 of 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 {{Latvia-bobsleigh-bio-stub