title: Jānis Ķipurs
text: # Jānis Ķipurs
  
  Jānis Ķipurs (sometimes shown as Yanis Kipurs or Janis Kipurs, born 3 January 1958 in Kurmene, Kurmene parish) is a Latvian bobsledder who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, he won two medals with a gold in the two-man event and a bronze in the four-man event.
  
  Ķipurs also won a bronze medal in the two-man event at the 1989 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
  
  He won the two-man Bobsleigh World Cup championship in 1987–88.
  
  Because of his successes, the ice rink in his hometown of Sigulda (now part of Latvia) was named in his honor.
  
  