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Canoe racer
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Place of birth
Homieĺ, Belarus
Age
87 years
Awards
Order of the Badge of Honour
Merited Master of Sports of the USSR
Honorary citizen of Gomel
(1993)
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Biography
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.
He also won a gold medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Jajce.
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ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian
Jewish Belarusian sportspeople
Jewish Belarusian sportspeople
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