Viktor Lipsnis
Viktor Lipsnis at the 1960 Olympics | |
Personal information | |
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Born | (1933-12-06)6 December 1933 Chernihiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Died | 25 September 1997(1997-09-25) (aged 63)[1] |
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 116 kg (256 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Shot put |
Club | Spartak Leningrad Burevestnik Leningrad Soviet Army[2] |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 19.35 m (1964) |
Viktor Lipsnis (Russian: Виктор Липснис, 6 December 1933 – 25 September 1997) was a Soviet shot putter who won silver medals at the 1958 and 1962 European championships. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in fourth and tenth place, respectively.[3] Lipsnis was born in Ukraine, but lived through most of his career in Saint Petersburg. He won three Soviet titles (1960–1962) and set eight Soviet records (1958, 1960, 1962, 1964) in the shot put.[2]
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Universiade champions in men's shot put
- 1959: Hermann Lingnau (FRG)
- 1961: Viktor Lipsnis (URS)
- 1963: Zsigmond Nagy (HUN)
- 1965: Randy Matson (USA)
- 1967: Neal Steinhauer (USA)
- 1970: Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)
- 1973: Valeriy Voykin (URS)
- 1975: Bishop Dolegiewicz (CAN)
- 1977: Valcho Stoev (BUL)
- 1979: Udo Beyer (GDR)
- 1981: Michael Carter (USA)
- 1983: Michael Carter (USA)
- 1985: Remigius Machura (TCH)
- 1987: Klaus Görmer (GDR)
- 1989: Lars Arvid Nilsen (NOR)
- 1991: Aleksandr Klimenko (URS/UKR)
- 1993: Aleksandr Klimenko (URS/UKR)
- 1995: Yuriy Bilonoh (UKR)
- 1997: Yuriy Bilonoh (UKR)
- 1999: Andy Bloom (USA)
- 2001: Manuel Martínez (ESP)
- 2003: Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR)
- 2005: Tomasz Majewski (POL)
- 2007: Maksim Sidorov (RUS)
- 2009: Soslan Tsirikhov (RUS)
- 2011: O'Dayne Richards (JAM)
- 2013: Aleksandr Lesnoy (RUS)
- 2015: Inderjeet Singh (IND)
- 2017: Francisco Belo (POR)
- 2019: Konrad Bukowiecki (POL)
- 2021: Konrad Bukowiecki (POL)
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