Leonid Geishtor
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| Medal record | ||
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| Men's canoe sprint | ||
| Representing File:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games
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| Gold medal – first place | 1960 Rome | C-2 1000 m |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold medal – first place | 1963 Jajce | C-2 10000 m |
Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor; also Geyshtor[1] (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Гейштор) (born October 15, 1936, in Homel, Belarusian SSR) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[1]
Life and career
[edit | edit source]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]
Paired with Makarenko, he also won a gold medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Jajce.[5]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ Jews in Sport in the USSR Archived 2015-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
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- DatabaseOlympics.profile 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
[edit | edit source]- Leonid Geishtor at the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus
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Categories:
- 1936 births
- Belarusian male canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Jewish Belarusian sportspeople
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Soviet male canoeists
- Soviet Jews
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Sportspeople from Gomel
- Canoeists from Gomel region
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- 20th-century Belarusian sportsmen
- European canoeist stubs
- Belarusian sportspeople stubs
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
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