Juris Šics
Latvian luger
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Šics in 2015
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Nationality | Latvian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1983-04-26
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26 April 1983
(age
40)
Sigulda , Latvia |
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Height | 174 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Latvia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Luge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Doubles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Juris Šics (born 26 April 1983) is a Latvian luger . He competed in the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics , and won a silver medal in the men's doubles event in 2010 and two bronze medals in 2014, alongside his teammate and younger brother Andris Šics . [1] The Šics brothers' three medals mean they have won more Olympic medals than any other Latvian sportsperson. [2]
Šics won six medals at the FIL World Luge Championships with two silvers (Mixed team: 2016 , 2020 ) and four bronzes (Men's doubles: 2011 , Mixed team: 2008 , 2009 , 2013 ). He also won 15 medals at the FIL European Luge Championships with three golds in 2008 , 2010 and 2021 , four silvers in 2014 , 2016 , 2018 and 2021 , and eight bronzes in 2006 , 2015 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 and 2020 . Šics' best individual European championship is winning the men's doubles event in 2021.
References
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Juris Šics
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Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
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- ↑ Harder, Wolfgang (May 2014). "Now Latvia's most successful Olympians: Andris and Juris Sics" (PDF) . FIL Magazine . Vol. 1, no. 51. Berchtesgaden, Germany: International Luge Federation . p. 8 . Retrieved 12 January 2019 .
External links
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Juris Šics
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Juris Šics
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Latvian Olympic Committee
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