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Place of Birth: Vecumnieki Municipality, Latvia
About Jānis Ķipurs
- Janis Kipurs (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.Kipurs 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).
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