Māris Poikāns
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]
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's Bobsleigh | ||
Representing the  Soviet Union | ||
| World Cup | ||
.svg.png.webp){kind=icon} | 1985–86 | Two-man |
| 1989–90 | Combined |
.svg.png.webp){kind=icon} | 1989–90 | Four-man |
.svg.png.webp){kind=icon} | 1989–90 | Two-man |
| European Championships | ||
| 1990 Igls | Two-man |
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Poikans earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Calgary in 1988.
References
- 1984 bobsleigh four-man results
- 1988 bobsleigh four-man results
- List of combined men's bobsleigh World Cup champions: 1985–2007
- List of four-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
- List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985
- "Sports Shorts". AP News Archive. 24 January 1990. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
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