Ģirts Ankipāns

Ģirts Ankipāns
Date of birth	November 29, 1975
place of birth	Riga , Latvian SSR
size	186 cm
Weight	89 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1991-1992	Vendenieki
1992-1995	HK Essamika Ogre
1995-1997	Juniors Riga
1997-1999	Braunlager EHC
1999	EHC Neuwied
1999-2001	EC Timmendorfer Strand
2001-2002	EV Füssen
2002-2003	EV Landshut
2003-2008	HK Riga 2000
2008-2013	Dinamo Riga

Ģirts Ankipāns (born November 29, 1975 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player . Since 2017 he has been the general manager and head coach of Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Ģirts Ankipāns (left) and Gabriel Spilar (right), December 2008

Ģirts Ankipāns began his career with Vendenieki in 1991 before going on the ice for HK Essamika Ogre between 1992 and 1995 . This was followed by two and a half years at Juniors Riga before he moved to Germany for Braunlager EHC . Further stations in the second and third division of Germany were the EHC Neuwied , the EC Timmendorfer Strand , the EV Füssen and the EV Landshut .

Between 2003 and 2008 he played for the Latvian top club HK Riga 2000 in the Latvian ice hockey league and won several Latvian champions with them. In the 2006/07 season he also played a few games for HK Dinamo Minsk in the Belarusian championship . For the 2008/09 season he joined Dinamo Riga from the newly formed Continental Hockey League and played for Dinamo until the middle of the 2012/13 season. He then ended his career and became an assistant coach at Dinamo.

International

Ģirts Ankipāns participated in several international tournaments for Latvia. In 1995 he took part in the U20 World Cup of Division II with the U20 selection of his home country. In the senior sector, it was used at the 2003 , 2005 , 2009 and 2011 World Championships . He was also a member of the Latvian squad at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver .

As a trainer and functionary

After his engagement as assistant coach at Dinamo, he was assistant coach at Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod between 2015 and 2017 and initially looked after the Latvian U20 national team, in the 2016/17 season then the Latvian men's national team as assistant coach.

He has been General Manager at Dinamo Riga since 2017, and also head coach of the club since the end of September.

Achievements and Awards

1997 top scorer in the Latvian ice hockey league 2004 Latvian champion with the HK Riga 2000 2005 Latvian champion with HK Riga 2000 2006 second place at the IIHF Continental Cup

2006 Latvian champion with the HK Riga 2000 2007 Latvian champion with the HK Riga 2000 2008 Second place at the IIHF Continental Cup 2008 top scorer of the IIHF Continental Cup final tournament

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes	Plus minus
KHL main round	5	202	28	42	70	108	+4
KHL playoffs	4th	21st	3	1	4th	18th	−4
Extraliga main round	4th	127	26th	71	97	102	−1
Extraliga playoffs	2	7th	1	1	2	2	+1
2nd Bundesliga	3	129	53	90	143	161
Oberliga	3	104	94	147	241	148
Latvia main round	11	210	185	214	399	326
Latvia playoffs	3	19th	15th	22nd	37	24

(Status: end of the 2012/13 season)

Web links

• Ģirts Ankipāns at eurohockey.com
• Ģirts Ankipāns at eliteprospects.com (English)