Jānis Strenga

Jānis Strenga
Jānis Strenga at the 2014 Winter Olympics
nation	Latvia
birthday	February 6, 1986
place of birth	Sigulda
size	183 cm
Weight	92 kg
Career
position	Pusher
Trainer	Sandis Prusis
National squad	since 2008
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 1 × World championships 1 × 1 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold Sochi 2014 four bronze Pyeongchang 2018 two  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 bronze Innsbruck 2018 four silver Königssee 2019 four
last change: February 11, 2018

Jānis Strenga (born February 6, 1986 in Sigulda ) 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 .

Jānis Strenga started at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the four-man bobsleigh as Oskars Melbārdis' pusher. Together with this, Daumants Dreiškens and Arvis Vilkaste he became Olympic champion . In the same formation, Strenga 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 Vilkaste. In 2018 he was a pusher in the two-man bobsleigh run by Oskars Melbārdis at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang and won the bronze medal with him. They finished fifth in the four-man bobsleigh.

Web links

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