Juris Silovs (athlete)

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Juris Silovs
Personal information
Born30 August 1950
Medal record
Men's Athletics
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1972 Munich 4x100 m relay
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Montreal 4x100 m relay
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 1973 Moscow 100 m

Juris Silovs (Russian: Силов, Юрий Викентьевич; born 30 August 1950) was a Latvian athlete who competed for Soviet Union mainly in the 100 metres. He trained at VSS Varpa in Riga.

He 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 team mates Aleksandr Kornelyuk, Vladimir Lovetskiy and Valeriy Borzov. He then returned for the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal in the 4 x 100 metre relay where this time the team won the bronze medal with Aleksandr Aksinin, Nikolay Kolesnikov and Valeriy Borzov.

P.B. 60 meters - 6.65

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