Vladimir Evgenjewitsch Koslow ( Russian Владимир Евгеньевич Козлов ; born March 7, 1958 in Dymytrow , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet bobsleigh driver who was active as a pusher. In 1988 he started in Calgary for the Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics and won gold in the two-man bobsleigh and bronze in the four-man bobsleigh.
Career
Vladimir Evgenyevich Koslow was nominated by the Soviet Union for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada as a push for Jānis Ķipurs and competed in both the two-man and four-man bobsleigh. In the two-man bobsleigh, he and the Ķipurs drivers won the gold medal ahead of the two GDR bobsleighs run by Wolfgang Hoppe and Bernhard Lehmann . It was a historic triumph because the victory of Vladimir Koslow and Jānis Ķipurs was the only Olympic victory of the Soviet Union in bobsleigh. In the four-man bobsleigh, Guntis Osis and Juris Tone were used as pushers by Kipurs. Behind the Swiss bobsleigh by Ekkehard Fasser and the East German bobsleigh by Wolfgang Hoppe, the Soviet team took third place and thus won the bronze medal.
Soviet Union
