Arvis Vilkaste

Arvis Vilkaste
Arvis Vilkaste at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games
nation	Latvia
birthday	April 8, 1989
place of birth	Soviet Union
size	183 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
position	Pusher
Trainer	Sandis Prusis
National squad	since 2010
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 1 × 1 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Sochi 2014 four  Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships bronze Winterberg 2015 four gold Igls 2016 four silver Whistler 2019 four  European bobsleigh championships gold La Plagne 2015 four bronze St. Moritz 2016 four silver Königssee 2019 four
last change: March 11, 2019

Arvis Vilkaste (born April 8, 1989 in Balvi ) is a Latvian bobsleigh athlete .

Career

In the 2013/14 season he won his first two World Cup races in the four-man bobsleigh in St. Moritz and Igls . At these World Cups he was active as a pusher for Oskars Melbārdis .

Arvis Vilkaste started at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the four-man bobsleigh as Oskars Melbārdis' pusher. Together with this, Daumants Dreiškens and Jānis Strenga he became Olympic champion . In the same formation, Vilkaste became European champion in 2015 and won bronze at the world championships . The following year he became world champion in the four-man bobsleigh in Igls , again with Melbārdis, Dreiškens and Strenga.

Before his career in bobsleigh, he was active as a track and field athlete. In 2008 he won the Latvian championships with the relay over 100 m.

Web links

• Arvis Vilkaste in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Arvis Vilkaste in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )