Ivans Klementjevs

Ivans Klementjevs

Klementjevs in 2010
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	C-1 1000 m
World Championships
	1985 Mechelen	C-1 1000 m
	1989 Plovdiv	C-1 1000 m
	1989 Plovdiv	C-1 10000 m
	1990 Poznań	C-1 1000 m
	1991 Paris	C-1 1000 m
Silver medal – second place	1983 Tampere	C-2 500 m
Silver medal – second place	1986 Montreal	C-1 1000 m
Silver medal – second place	1991 Paris	C-1 10000 m
Bronze medal – third place	1987 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place	1990 Poznań	C-1 10000 m
Representing Latvia
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Silver medal – second place	1992 Barcelona	C-1 1000 m
Silver medal – second place	1996 Atlanta	C-1 1000 m
World Championships
	1993 Copenhagen	C-1 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place	1995 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m
Representing Poland
World Championships
	1994 Mexico City	C-1 1000 m

Ivans Klementjevs (born 18 November 1960 in Burtiki) is a Soviet-born Latvian politician and former sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won three Olympic medals in C-1 1000 m at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. The highlight was the gold medal in 1988, which he won as a competitor for the USSR. He trained at Trudovye Rezervy and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Riga when Latvia was part of the Soviet Union.

He also won a total of twelve C-1 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (C-1 1000 m: 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994; C-1 10000 m: 1989), two silvers (C-1 1000 m: 1986, C-1 10000 m: 1991), and three bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 1987, 1995; C-1 10000 m: 1990). Klementjev's only non C-1 world championship medal was a silver in the C-2 500 m event in 1983.

After retiring from canoeing, Klementijevs entered politics and was a Riga city councillor for the National Harmony Party from 2001 to 2005, and since 2006 is a member of the Saeima for Harmony.

He was awarded with the highest Latvian state decoration - the Order of the Three Stars, 4th Class in 1999.

References

• Ivans Klementjevs at DatabaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)

External links

• Ivans Klementjevs at Olympedia
• Ivans Klementjevs at Olympics.com
• Ivans Klementjevs at Olympic.org (archived)
• Ivans Klementjevs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)