Vilnis Baltiņš
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Vilnis Baltiņš (born 30 April 1942 in Ugāle parish) is a Latvian sports executive and a former Latvian Soviet sprint canoeist. He was the first president of the renewed Latvian Olympic Committee (1988-2004). As canoeist, he competed in the mid to late 1960s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in East Berlin.
References
[edit]- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- 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)