Raivis Broks ( Latvian: Raivis Broks , February 20, 1982 , Madona ) - Latvian bobsledder , disperse, has been playing for the Latvian team since 2007. A participant in two winter Olympic games, a multiple winner and medalist of national championships, various stages of the European Cup.
 Raivis Brox | |
|---|---|
| general information | |
| Citizenship |  Latvia |
| Date of Birth | February 20, 1982 (aged 37) |
| Place of Birth | Madona |
| Height | 192 cm |
| The weight | 98 kg |
| Career | |
| Position | overclocking |
| Trainer | Sandis Prussis |
| In the national team | since 2007 |
| Status | competes |
| Last updated: January 22, 2013 | |
Biography
Raivis Brox was born on February 20, 1982 in the city of Madona . He began to actively engage in bobsleigh in 2007, he was soon selected for the national team and began to go to the largest international starts as an accelerator, sometimes showing quite good results. In November, he made his European Cup debut; at the stage in the Austrian Eagles, he took fifth place in both disciplines, both in deuces and fours. A few weeks later, at a stage in the Italian Cesana, he won his first medal, bronze in the standings of the deuces. In January 2008, for the first time participated in the World Cup races, in Cesan with the four showed the seventeenth time. At the 2008 World Youth Championships in Eagles, he was tenth with a two-seater crew and sixth with a four-seater, while at the adult world championship in German Altenberg he finished seventeenth with a double and fifteenth with a four.
The whole next season, Brox was invariably present in the twenty strongest at almost all stages of the world cup, however, at the 2009 World Championships in the American Lake Placid he did not perform very well, with only two came to the finish line only twenty-seventh, and with four - sixteenth. Further, thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , where he took eleventh place in the four-seater crew program. In the post-Olympic season, due to high competition, he was forced to play mainly in minor less important competitions like the European Cup, although he was very successful here, he won three silver medals and one bronze. At the 2011 World Championships in KΓΆnigssee, Germany, he participated in the fours standings and finished fifteenth, a year later at the competitions in Lake Placid was twenty-second with a two.
In 2014, Brox attended the Sochi Olympics , where he finished fourteenth in the men's four-seater crew program.
Links
- Raivis Brox (German) (English) - page on the FIBT website
- Raivis Brox - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com