 Geishtor in 2011 | ||
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's canoe sprint | ||
Representing  Soviet Union
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Olympic Games
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1960 Rome | C-2 1000 m |
| World Championships | ||
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1963 Jajce | C-2 10000 m |
Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor; also Geyshtor (Russian: Леонид Григорьевич Гейштор) (born October 15, 1936, in Homel, Belarusian SSR) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Life and career
Geishtor is Jewish. He trained at Vodnik in Gomel. Along with teammate Sergei Makarenko, Geishtor won the first Olympic gold medal by a Belarusian competitor. The two won the C-2 1000 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Geishtor was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1960.
Paired with Makarenko, he also won a gold medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Jajce.
See also
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leonid Geyshtor". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
- Jews in Sport in the USSR Archived 2015-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 540.
- National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus Archived 2007-10-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 20 January 2007.
- "Leonid Geishtor".
- DatabaseOlympics.profile at the Wayback Machine (archived September 29, 2007)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
External links
- Leonid Geishtor at the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus
- Leonid Geishtor at Olympics.com
- Leonid Geyshtor at Olympedia (archive)
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