Oskars Ķibermanis

Oskars Ķibermanis
Oskars Ķibermanis 2015
nation	Latvia
birthday	4th April 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Valmiera , Latvia
size	186 cm
Weight	92 kg
Career
position	pilot
Trainer	Sandis Prusis
National squad	since 2011
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 1 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships silver Whistler 2019 four bronze Altenberg 2020 two  European bobsleigh championships bronze Winterberg 2017 two silver Königssee 2019 four gold Sigulda 2020 two
Placements in the Bobsleigh World Cup
World Cup victories 1  Overall World Cup two 2. ( 2018/19 )  Overall World Cup foursome 3. ( 2018/19 )  Overall World Cup combination 2. ( 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Two-man bobsleigh 0 4th 6th  Four-man bobsleigh 1 4th 3
last change: March 11, 2019

Oskars Ķibermanis (born April 4, 1993 in Valmiera ) is a Latvian bobsleigh pilot .

Career

Ķibermanis was initially active as a decathlete , before he turned to bobsleigh at the age of 18. He made his debut in the European Cup in November 2011 in Innsbruck . On January 12, 2013, he made his debut in the World Cup in Königssee , where he finished 26th in the two-man bobsleigh and 15th in the four-man bobsleigh. He started in the 2014 Winter Olympics in both two-man and four-man bobsleigh. In the two-man bobsleigh, he took 16th place with Vairis Leiboms . In the four-man bobsleigh, he reached 14th place with Leiboms, Helvijs Lūsis and Raivis Broks . Ķibermanis achieved his first podium finish in the World Cup in January 2017 in Altenberg , when he finished third in the two-man bobsleigh with Matīss Miknis . This was followed by further podium finishes in the two-man bobsleigh in the 2016/17 season , with Jānis Jansons , Matīss Miknis and Raivis Zīrups winning his first World Cup victory in the four-man bobsleigh in St. Moritz . At the European Championships in Winterberg , he won bronze with Matīss Miknis. He finished the European Championship 2018 in fourth place in the two-man bobsleigh and sixth in the four-man bobsleigh. In Pyeongchang he finished ninth in the two-man bobsleigh and tenth in the four-man bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics. At the 2018/19 World Cup he did not win, but placed second behind Francesco Friedrich in both the two-man bobsleigh and the overall standings, and came third overall in the four-man bobsleigh. In 2019 he became vice world champion and vice European champion in the four-man bobsleigh .

Web links

Commons : Oskars Ķibermanis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Oskars Ķibermanis in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
• Oskars Ķibermanis in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Oskars Ķibermanis in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Krišjānis Pundurs: Vinterberga turpina būt latviešiem veiksmīga - Ķibermanim Eiropas bronza. In: sportacentrs.com. January 14, 2017, accessed February 28, 2018 (Latvian).