Daumants Dreiškens

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Daumants Dreiškens Bobsleigh
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nation LatviaLatvia Latvia
birthday March 28, 1984
place of birth Gulbene , Latvian SSRSoviet Union
Soviet UnionSoviet Union 
size 193 cm
Weight 108 kg
Career
position Pusher
Trainer Sandis Prusis
National squad since 2003
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
European championships 2 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
gold Sochi 2014 four
bronze Sochi 2014 two
IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships
bronze Lake Placid 2009 four
silver Winterberg 2015 two
bronze Winterberg 2015 four
gold Igls 2016 four
IBSF European bobsleigh championships
gold Cesana Torinese 2008 four
gold La Plagne 2015 four
silver La Plagne 2015 two
bronze St. Moritz 2016 four
bronze Igls 2018 four
last change: February 11, 2018

Daumants Dreiškens (born March 28, 1984 in Gulbene , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Latvian bobsleigh athlete .

Career

He celebrated his first major success in 2008 when he won the European Championship in the four-man bobsleigh. Dreiškens was one of the pushers, the pilot was Jānis Miņins . In the World Cup so far, a second place in the overall classification of the two-man and four-man bobs, both in 2012/13 , was his best final result. In the 2013/14 season he won his first two World Cup races in St. Moritz and Igls . At these World Cups he was active as a pusher for Oskars Melbārdis . In 2015 he became vice European champion in the two-man bobsleigh in La Plagne with Oskars Melbārdis. In the four-man bobsleigh, he won the European title with Melbārdis as a pilot. At the 2015 World Championships in Winterberg, he won the silver medal as a pusher for Melbārdis and bronze in the four-man bobsleigh. The following year he became world champion in the four-man bobsleigh in Igls with Melbārdis, Arvis Vilkaste and Jānis Strenga .

Daumants Dreiškens started at the 2014 Winter Olympics in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh as Oskars Melbārdis' pusher. In the two-man bobsleigh they finished fifth, in the four-man bobsleigh they won silver. In March 2019, they were ultimately awarded the Olympic victory in the four-man bobsleigh, as well as bronze in the two-man bobsleigh, after the Russian bobsleigh teams were disqualified for doping. Dreiškens also competed in the 2006 and 2010 games . In 2006 he finished sixth in the two-man bobsleigh with Jānis Miņins, and they finished tenth in the four-man bobsleigh. In Vancouver 2010 Dreiškens was the pusher of Edgars Maskalāns , with whom he finished eighth in the two-man bobsleigh. The four-man bobsleigh with pilot Jānis Miņins did not start.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Two silver medals posthumously. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 28, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019 .