Zintis Ekmanis
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's bobsleigh | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1984 Sarajevo | Two-man | |
World Championships | ||
1985 Cervinia | Two-man |
Zintis Ekmanis (born 17 May 1958) is a former Latvian bobsledder who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the two-man event at Sarajevo in 1984.
Ekmanis also won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1985 FIBT World Championships in Cervinia. During the Bobsleigh World Cup of 1986-7, he finished third in the two-man event.
References
[edit]- 1988 bobsleigh two-man results
- 1992 bobsleigh two-man results
- 1994 bobsleigh two-man results
- Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964[dead link]
- Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931 at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 September 2007)
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 29 September 2007)
- History of bobsleigh in Latvia featuring Ekmanis (in Latvian)
- List of two-man bobsleigh World Cup champions since 1985 at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 April 2008)
External links
[edit]- Zintis Ekmanis at Olympedia
- Zintis Ekmanis at Olympics.com
- Zintis Ekmanis at Olympic.org (archived)
- Zintis Ekmanis at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)
Categories:
- 1958 births
- Living people
- Latvian male bobsledders
- Russian male bobsledders
- Soviet male bobsledders
- Olympic bobsledders for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bobsledders for Latvia
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in bobsleigh
- Bobsledders at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1988 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1992 Winter Olympics
- Bobsledders at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics
- European bobsleigh biography stubs
- Latvian winter sports biography stubs
- Russian bobsleigh biography stubs
- Soviet Winter Olympic medalist stubs