Māris Poikāns

Māris Poikāns
Medal record
Men's Bobsleigh
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
World Cup
1985–86 Two-man
1989–90 Combined
1989–90 Four-man
1989–90 Two-man
European Championships
1990 Igls Two-man

Māris Poikāns (born 11 November 1962, Vidriži) is a Latvian bobsledder who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s for Soviet Union. He won the combined men's Bobsleigh World Cup championship in 1989–90. He also won a bronze medal alongside brakeman Andrei Gorochov in the two-man race at the European Championship in 1990.[1]

Competing in two Winter Olympics, Poikans earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Calgary in 1988.

References

  1. "Sports Shorts". AP News Archive. 24 January 1990. Retrieved 28 January 2014.


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