Lev Vainshtein

Lev Vainshtein
Personal information
Born March 12, 1916
Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Russia
Died December 25, 2004
Sport
Country Soviet Union
Sport Shooting
Event(s)
Club Dynamo St. Petersburg
Medal record
Olympic medal record
Men's Shooting
Competitor for the  Soviet Union
Bronze 1952 Helsinki free rifle 300 metre rifle three positions
ISSF World Shooting Championships
Gold 1954 Caracas 25 m Center-Fire Pistol Team
Gold 1954 Caracas 50 m Pistol Team
Gold 1958 Moscow 50 m Pistol Team
Silver 1958 Moscow 50 m Pistol Team

Lev Matveyevich Vainshtein (also "Vaynshteyn" and "Lew Weinstein"; March 12, 1916 – December 25, 2004) was a Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting.[1][2][3]

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Early life

Vainshtein was Jewish, and was born in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk, Russia.[4][5][6][2]

Shooting career

Vainshtein was affiliated with the Dynamo St. Petersburg club in St. Petersburg.[3]

He won a bronze medal in shooting at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, in the free rifle 300 metre rifle three positions, as his teammate Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov won the gold medal, and Robert Bürchler of Sweden won the silver medal.[4][7][6][8][9][10][11] He came in fifth in the men's 50 metre pistol (60 shots).[8]

He also won a number of world, European, and USSR championships in his career.[9] He won gold medals as part of the Soviet Union team in both the 25 metre center-fire pistol and the 50 metre pistol in the 1954 World Championships in Caracas.[12] Four years later, he again won a gold medal with the Soviet team in the 50 metre pistol at the 1958 World Championships in Moscow, and was part of the Soviet silver-medal winning Soviet team in the 25 metre center-fire pistol.[12]

Vainshtein coached the Soviet shooting team at the 1964 Olympics.[2]

Publications

See also

References

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  2. ^ a b c "Vainshtein, Lev". Jewsinsports.org. http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=235. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  3. ^ a b "Lev Vaynshteyn Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. December 25, 2004. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/lev-vaynshteyn-1.html. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  4. ^ a b Peter S. Horvitz (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes; An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. http://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C&pg=PA189&dq=Lev+Vainshtein&hl=en&ei=kAQ6ToiLF4GdgQfN2rnPBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Lev%20Vainshtein&f=false. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  5. ^ Paul Yogi Mayer (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities. http://books.google.com/books?id=rFo7AQAAIAAJ&q=Lev+Vainshtein&dq=Lev+Vainshtein&hl=en&ei=nQU6TsnSM8rYgQeXpZzOBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCgQ6AEwADgK. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  6. ^ a b Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. http://books.google.com/books?id=1K4UAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Lev+Vainshtein%22&dq=%22Lev+Vainshtein%22&hl=en&ei=5QU6TtCyBsnXgQf0o-TOBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBTgK. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  7. ^ David Wallechinsky (1988). The complete book of the Olympics. http://books.google.com/books?id=Xl3lAAAAMAAJ&q=Lev+Vainshtein&dq=Lev+Vainshtein&hl=en&ei=kAQ6ToiLF4GdgQfN2rnPBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBQ. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  8. ^ a b "Shooting sports - Lev Vainshtein (U.S.S.R.): season totals". The-sports.org. http://www.the-sports.org/shooting-sports-vainshtein-lev-results-identity-s22-c2-b4-o196-w72486.html. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  9. ^ a b "Jews in Sport in the USSR". Yivoencyclopedia.org. http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  10. ^ "Official source: Olympic Records, World Records, Olympic Medalists". Olympic.org. July 19, 1952. http://www.olympic.org/medallists-results?athletename=vainshtein&category=&games=&sport=&event=&mengender=true&womengender=false&mixedgender=false&teamclassification=true&individualclassification=true&continent=&country=&goldmedal=false&silvermedal=false&bronzemedal=false&worldrecord=false&olympicrecord=false&targetresults=true. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  11. ^ "300 m free rifle bronze Lev Vainshtein (USSR), aiming a rifle shootings Olympic Summer Olympics in Helsinki". http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=http://suomenmuseotonline.fi/fi/kohde/Suomen%2BMets%25C3%25A4stysmuseo/SMM%2B1710%253A147%3FpathId%3D1.90.2146.%26itemIndex%3D18&ei=Lgw6TtGTO8uRgQeruv3OBg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCMQ7gEwATge&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLev%2BVainshtein%26start%3D30%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D581%26prmd%3Divnso. Retrieved August 4, 2011. 
  12. ^ a b "Historical Results; Championships". International Shooting Sport Federation. July 16, 2011. http://www.issf-sports.org/results/historicalmedalwinners.ashx. Retrieved August 4, 2011.