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Name
  
Maris Poikans

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Māris Poikāns (born 11 November 1962, Vidriži) is a Latvian bobsledder who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s for Soviet Union. He won the combined men's Bobsleigh World Cup championship in 1989–90. He also won a bronze medal alongside brakeman Andrei Gorochov in the two-man race at the European Championship in 1990.

Competing in two Winter Olympics, Poikans earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Calgary in 1988.

References

Māris Poikāns Wikipedia