Jānis Ķipurs
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Jānis Ķipurs
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Jānis Ķipurs is a Latvian 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 ice rink in his hometown of Sigulda was named in his honor.
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Latvian-born bobsledder (born 1958)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_%C4%B6ipurs
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2023-07-04T20:29:27Z
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