Juris Silovs (athlete)

Juris Silovs

Personal information
Born	(1950-08-30)August 30, 1950 Krāslava, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union (now Latvia)
Died	September 28, 2018(2018-09-28) (aged 68)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	4 × 100 metres relay
Medal record Men's Athletics Representing the Soviet Union Olympic Games 1972 Munich 4x100 m relay 1976 Montreal 4x100 m relay Summer Universiade 1973 Moscow 100 m 1975 Rome 4x100 m relay 1977 Sofia 4x100 m relay 1973 Moscow 4x100 m relay

Juris Silovs (Russian: Силов, Юрий Викентьевич; 30 August 1950 – 28 September 2018) was a Latvian athlete from Krāslava who competed for Soviet Union from 1970 til 1978, mainly in the 100 metres. He trained at the VSS Vārpa in Riga.

Sports career

Silovs competed for the USSR in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich in the 4 x 100 metre relay, where he won the silver medal with his teammates Aleksandr Kornelyuk, Vladimir Lovetskiy and Valeriy Borzov. He returned for the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal in the 4 x 100 metre relay, where the team won the bronze medal with Aleksandr Aksinin, Nikolay Kolesnikov and Valeriy Borzov.

Silovs also competed in the 1973 Universiade in Moscow, winning gold in the 100 m event, as well as silver in the 4x100 m relay team event. He also won gold in 1975 and 1977 in the 4x100 m relay event.

He retired due to trauma in 1978, later becoming a catering entrepreneur.

Personal bests

Event	Time	Date	Location	Notes
60 m (indoor)	6,65 s	9 March 1974	Gothenburg, Sweden	Latvian record
60 m (hand stopwatch; indoor)	6,4 s	4 February 1971	Moscow, USSR	Latvian record
100 m	10,33 s	August 17, 1973
100 m (hand stopwatch)	10,1 s	1974
100 m (indoor)	10,66 s	1 March 1978	Moscow, USSR	Latvian record
200 m	21,3 s	1973

External links

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Juris Silovs". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.