Leonid Geishtor

Leonid Geishtor

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	C-2 1000 m
World Championships
	1963 Jajce	C-2 10000 m

Leonid Grigorievich Geishtor (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.^[1]

Life and career

Geishtor is Jewish.^[2] He trained at Vodnik in Gomel.^[3] Along with teammate Sergei Makarenko, Geishtor won the first Olympic gold medal by a Belarusian competitor.^[4] 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.^[3]

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

• List of select Jewish canoeists

References

1. "Leonid Geyshtor Biography and Olympic Results | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved February 1, 2011.
2. Jews in Sport in the USSR
3. Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games. (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. p. 540.
4. National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus. Retrieved 20 January 2007.

• DatabaseOlympics.profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007.
• Sports-reference.com profile (As Leonid Geyshtor)