Ivans Klementjevs

Ivans Klementjevs

Ivans Klementjevs
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	C-1 1000 m
	1992 Barcelona	C-1 1000 m
	1996 Atlanta	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
	1993 Copenhagen	C-1 1000 m
	1994 Mexico City	C-1 1000 m
	1983 Tampere	C-2 500 m
	1986 Montreal	C-1 1000 m
	1991 Paris	C-1 10000 m
	1987 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m
	1990 Poznań	C-1 10000 m
	1995 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m

Ivans Klementjevs (born November 18, 1960 in Riga) 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—2005, and since 2006 is a member of the Saeima for Harmony.

References

• DatabaseOlympics.com 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 (birth year listed as 1969)