Leonid Geishtor

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Leonid Geishtor
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Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
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 (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

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]

He also won a gold medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Jajce.

See also

References

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  2. Jews in Sport in the USSR
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  4. National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Retrieved 20 January 2007.


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