Leonid Geishtor
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| Medal record | ||
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| Gold | 1960 Rome | C-2 1000 m |
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| Gold | 1963 Jajce | C-2 10000 m |
Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Гейштор) (born October 15, 1936, in Homel, Belarusian SSR) 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
- List of select Jewish canoers
References
- ↑ "Leonid Geyshtor Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- ↑ Jews in Sport in the USSR
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games. (in Russian) (2nd ed. ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 540.
- ↑ National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
- DatabaseOlympics.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 (As Leonid Geyshtor)
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