About Māris Poikāns
Born 1962. Māris Poikāns is a Latvian and Russian bobsledder.
Māris Poikāns (born 11 December 1962, Vidriži) is a Latvian bobsledder who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s for Soviet Union. He won the combined men's Bobsleigh World Cup championship in 1989–90. He also won a bronze medal alongside brakeman Andrei Gorochov in the two-man race at the European Championship in 1990.
Competing in two Winter Olympics, Poikans earned his best finish of fifth in the four-man event at Calgary in 1988.
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When was Māris Poikāns born?
Māris Poikāns was born on 11 November 1962 in Limbaži Municipality.
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Māris Poikāns is a bobsledder.
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Māris Poikāns is Latvian and Russian.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Māris Poikāns. https://biography.guide/maris-poikans/
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