Sandis Prūsis


Sandis Prūsis is a Latvian bobsledder. Started training in 1980. Professional career from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish in the two-man event at Nagano in 1998, he got fifth place.
Prūsis's best Bobsleigh World Cup finish was second two times, all in the four-man event.

Professional career

Sandis Prūsis started to compete in 1980. In his first Winter Olympic Games he was a reservist, but took part in it because of Jānis Ķipurs injury. In 1998 he was 5th in two-man competition and 6th in four-man competition in the Winter Olympic Games. In 1998 he came 3rd in World Cup in two-man competition and combined competition. In 2000 and in 2003 Sandis Prūsis got the silver medal in four-man competition in general classification. In 2001 he got silver in four-man and bronze in combined competition in World Cup. He got four-man European champion title in 2000 and 2003.
He is six times winner in Latvian Championship and Latvian PSR Champion and carried the flag of Latvia at the 1998 Winter Olympics.
Sandis Prūsis finished his career after 2002/2003 World Cup season in bobsleigh. After ending his bobsleigh career, Prūsis coached the Italian bobsleigh team from 2004 to 2006. Since 2006, he has been a coach for the Latvian team.