Leonid Geishtor

Medal record

Leonid Geishtor
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Gold 1960 Rome C-2 1000 m
World Championships
Gold 1963 Jajce C-2 10000 m

Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Гейштор) (born October 15, 1936, in Homel, Homel, Belarus) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[1]

Life and career

Geishtor is Jewish.[2] He trained at Vodnik in Gomel.[3] Along with teammate Sergei Makarenko, Geishtor won the first Olympic gold medal by a Belarusian competitor.[4] The two won the C-2 1000 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Geishtor was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1960.[3]

He also won a gold medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Jajce.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Leonid Geyshtor Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ge/leonid-geyshtor-1.html. Retrieved February 1, 2011. 
  2. ^ Jews in Sport in the USSR
  3. ^ a b Boris Khavin (1979) (in Russian). All about Olympic Games. (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. p. 540. 
  4. ^ National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Retrieved 20 January 2007.

1936: Czechoslovakia (Vladimír Syrovátka, Jan Brzák-Felix) • 1948: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix, Bohumil Kudrna) • 1952: Denmark (Bent Peder Rasch, Finn Haunstoft) • 1956: Romania (Alexe Dumitru, Simion Ismailciuc) • 1960: Soviet Union (Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko) • 1964: Soviet Union (Andrei Khimich, Stepan Oshchepkov) • 1968: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Serghei Covaliov) • 1972: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas, Yuri Lobanov) • 1976: Soviet Union (Serhei Petrenko, Aleksandr Vinogradov) • 1980 – 1984: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin, Toma Simionov) • 1988: Soviet Union (Viktor Reneysky, Nicolae Juravschi) • 1992: Germany (Ulrich Papke, Ingo Spelly) • 1996: Germany (Gunar Kirchbach, Andreas Dittmer) • 2000: Romania (Mitică Pricop, Florin Popescu) • 2004: Germany (Christian Gille, Tomasz Wylenzek) • 2008: Belarus (Andrei Bahdanovich, Aliaksandr Bahdanovich)
1938: Czechoslovakia (Bohuslav Karlík & Jan Brzák-Felix * 1950: Czechoslovakia (Jan Brzák-Felix & Bohumil Kudrna) * 1954: Hungary (Károly Wieland & József Halmay) * 1958: Soviet Union (Stepan Ostzhenkov & Aleksandr Silayev) * 1963: Soviet Union (Leonid Geishtor & Sergei Makarenko) * 1966: Romania (Petre Maxim & Gheorghe Simionov) * 1970: Romania (Petre Maxim & Gheorghe Simionov) * 1971: Soviet Union (Naum Prokupets & Aleksandr Vinogradov) * 1973: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas & Yuri Lobanov) * 1974: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas & Yuri Lobanov) * 1975: Soviet Union (Vladas Česiūnas & Yuri Lobanov) * 1977: Soviet Union (Serhei Petrenko & Yuri Lobanov) * 1978: Hungary (Tamás Buday & László Vaskúti) * 1979: Soviet Union (Vasyl Yurchenko & Yuri Lobanov) * 1981: Hungary (Tamás Buday & László Vaskúti) * 1982: Romania (Ivan Patzaichin & Toma Simionov) * 1983: Hungary (Tamás Buday & László Vaskúti) * 1985: Yugoslavia (Matija Ljubek & Mirko Nišović) * 1986: Poland (Marek Łbik & Marek Dopierała) * 1987: Denmark (Arne Nielsson & Christian Frederiksen) * 1989: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson) * 1990: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson) * 1991: Hungary (István Gyulay & Pál Pétervári) * 1993: Denmark (Christian Frederiksen & Arne Nielsson)