Lev Weinstein

Lev Vainshtein
Personal information
Born (1916-03-12)12 March 1916
Yekaterinburg, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 25 December 2004(2004-12-25) (aged 88)
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
1952 Helsinki free rifle 300 metre rifle three positions
ISSF World Shooting Championships
1954 Caracas 25 m Center-Fire Pistol Team
1954 Caracas 50 m Pistol Team
1958 Moscow 50 m Pistol Team
1958 Moscow 25 m Center-Fire Pistol Team

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

Early life

Weinstein was Jewish, and was born in Yekaterinburg, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire.[2][4][5][6]

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][6][7][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

  1. ↑ Uri Miller (1998). Jews in Sport in the USSR. Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 "Vainshtein, Lev". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  3. 1 2 "Lev Vaynshteyn Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. 25 December 2004. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  4. 1 2 Peter S. Horvitz (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes; An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  5. ↑ Paul Yogi Mayer (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  6. 1 2 Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  7. ↑ David Wallechinsky (1988). The complete book of the Olympics. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  8. 1 2 "Shooting sports – Lev Vainshtein (U.S.S.R.): season totals". The-sports.org. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  9. 1 2 "Jews in Sport in the USSR". Yivoencyclopedia.org. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  10. ↑ "Official source: Olympic Records, World Records, Olympic Medalists". Olympic.org. 19 July 1952. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  11. ↑ "300 m free rifle bronze Lev Vainshtein (USSR), aiming a rifle shootings Olympic Summer Olympics in Helsinki". Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  12. 1 2 "Historical Results; Championships". International Shooting Sport Federation. 16 July 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, May 16, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.