Leonid Geishtor
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Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Гейштор) (born October 15, 1936) is a former Soviet Belarusian canoeist. He trained at Vodnik in Gomel.[1] Along with teammate Sergei Makarenko, Geishtor won the first Olympic gold medal by a Belarusian competitor.[2] The two won the men's 100 meter C-2 event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Geishtor was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1960.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games., 2nd ed. (in Russian), Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 540.
- ^ National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus, retrieved 20 January 2007.
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