Ivans Klementjevs

Ivans Klementjevs

Klementjevs in 2010
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	C-1 1000 m
World Championships
	1985 Mechelen	C-1 1000 m
	1989 Plovdiv	C-1 1000 m
	1989 Plovdiv	C-1 10000 m
	1990 Poznań	C-1 1000 m
	1991 Paris	C-1 1000 m
	1983 Tampere	C-2 500 m
	1986 Montreal	C-1 1000 m
	1991 Paris	C-1 10000 m
	1987 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m
	1990 Poznań	C-1 10000 m
Representing  Latvia
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	C-1 1000 m
	1996 Atlanta	C-1 1000 m
World Championships
	1993 Copenhagen	C-1 1000 m
	1995 Duisburg	C-1 1000 m
Representing  Poland
World Championships
	1994 Mexico City	C-1 1000 m

Ivans Klementjevs (born November 18, 1960 in Riga) is a Soviet-born Latvian politician and former sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won three Olympic medals in C-1 1000 m at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. The highlight was the gold medal in 1988, which he won as a competitor for the USSR. He trained at Trudovye Rezervy and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Riga when Latvia was part of the Soviet Union.

He also won a total of twelve C-1 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (C-1 1000 m: 1985, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994; C-1 10000 m: 1989), two silvers (C-1 1000 m: 1986, C-1 10000 m: 1991), and three bronzes (C-1 1000 m: 1987, 1995; C-1 10000 m: 1990). Klementjev's only non C-1 world championship medal was a silver in the C-2 500 m event in 1983.

After retiring from canoeing, Klementijevs entered politics and was a Riga city councillor for the National Harmony Party from 2001–2005, and since 2006 is a member of the Saeima for Harmony.

References

• Ivans Klementjevs at DatabaseOlympics.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-09-29)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-01-21). Additional archives: Wayback Machine.
• 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)
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Ivans Klementjevs". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-08-30.

External links

• Ivans Klementjevs at the Latvijas Olimpiskā Komiteja (in Latvian)
• Ivans Klementyev at the International Olympic Committee