Vilnis Baltiņš

Vilnis Baltiņš (born 30 April 1942 in Ugāle parish) is a Latvian sports executive and a former Latvian Soviet sprint canoeist.

He was the first president of the renewed Latvian Olympic Committee (1988-2004).

As canoeist, he competed in the mid to late 1960s.

He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the 1966 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in East Berlin.

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Former long-term head of the Latvian Olympic Committee, Honorary President of the Committee Vilnis Baltiņš