Ivans Klementjevs
Ivans Klementjevs | ||
Medal record | ||
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Men's canoe sprint | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1988 Seoul | C-1 1000 m | |
1992 Barcelona | C-1 1000 m | |
1996 Atlanta | C-1 1000 m | |
World Championships | ||
1985 Mechelen | C-1 1000 m | |
1989 Plovdiv | C-1 1000 m | |
1989 Plovdiv | C-1 10000 m | |
1990 Poznań | C-1 1000 m | |
1991 Paris | C-1 1000 m | |
1993 Copenhagen | C-1 1000 m | |
1994 Mexico City | C-1 1000 m | |
1983 Tampere | C-2 500 m | |
1986 Montreal | C-1 1000 m | |
1991 Paris | C-1 10000 m | |
1987 Duisburg | C-1 1000 m | |
1990 Poznań | C-1 10000 m | |
1995 Duisburg | C-1 1000 m |
Ivans Klementjevs (born November 18, 1960 in Riga) is a Soviet-born Latvian politician and former sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won three Olympic medals in C-1 1000 m at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. The highlight was the gold medal in 1988, which he won as a competitor for the USSR. He trained at Trudovye Rezervy and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Riga when Latvia was part of the Soviet Union.
He also won a total of twelve C-1 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (C-1 1000 m: 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994; C-1 10000 m: 1989), two silvers (C-1 1000 m: 1986, C-1 10000 m: 1991), and three bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 1987, 1995; C-1 10000 m: 1990). Klementjev's only non C-1 world championship medal was a silver in the C-2 500 m event in 1983.
After retiring from canoeing, Klementijevs entered politics and was a Riga city councillor for the National Harmony Party from 2001—2005, and since 2006 is a member of the Saeima for Harmony.
References
- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Sports-reference.com profile (birth year listed as 1969)