Aigars Kriķis

Aigars Kriķis
Medal record
Men's Luge
Representing Soviet Union
World Championships
European Championships

Aigars Kriķis (28 August 1954 in Riga – 15 February 1999),^[1] also known as Aygars Krikis (Russian: Айгарс Крикис),^[2] was a Latvian Soviet luger who competed during the late 1970s.

Early life and career

Born in Riga, Latvia. He started his career at the age of 14. Kriķis was a triple USSR Champion in Men's Doubles from 1973 to 1975. With writing at the time (usage of typewriters) his name Aigars was sometimes misspelled as Algars.

He and Dainis Bremze won the gold medal at the men's doubles event at the 1978 FIL World Luge Championships in Imst, Austria.^[3]

Kriķis and Bremze also won a bronze medal in the men's doubles event at the 1976 FIL European Luge Championships in Hammarstrand, Sweden.^[4]

At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Kriķis finished thirteenth in the men's singles event and eighth in the men's doubles event with Bremze. At the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, he finished tenth in the men's doubles event with Bremze.^[1]^[5]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Aigars Kriķis". Olympedia. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
^ ^a ^b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aigars Kriķis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
^ "Hickok sports information on World champions in luge and skeleton". hickoksports.com. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012.
^ "List of European luge champions". eiskanal.com (in German). Archived from the original on 25 March 2008.
^ Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Luge: Men's Two-seater". In The Complete Book the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 576.