Andrejs Apsītis Explained

Andrejs Apsītis
Birth Date:	7 February 1888
Birth Place:	Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union

Andrejs Apsītis (7 February 1888  - 2 September 1945) was a Latvian cyclist.^[1] He competed for the Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics and for Latvia at the 1924 Summer Olympics.^[2]

At the 1912 Olympic games in Stockholm, he finished the 320 kilometers race for road bicycle racing, earning 60th place with a time of 12.18:20,6.^[3] At the 1924 Olympic games in Paris, Apsitis with other Latvian cyclists team shared 7th to 10th place in the 4000 meters sprint.^[4]

He participated at the World championship, where he withdrew from the race. He won multiple times in the Latvian championship and in all-Union (USSR) sport games.^[5]

Apsītis participated in competitions with G. Ērenpreis Bicycle Factory manufactured sports bicycles.^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Andrejs Apsītis . Olympedia . 7 May 2021.
2. Andrejs Apsītis . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417215357/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ap/andrejs-apsitis-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 11 May 2013.
3. Ošiņš, Ivars (2008). Article Latvian Olympic gold, silver and bronze/ Latvijas olimpiskais zelts, sudrabs, bronza. Lauku avīze. 224.—225. lpp. .
4. Ošiņš, Ivars (2008). Article Latvian Olympic gold, silver and bronze/ Latvijas olimpiskais zelts, sudrabs, bronza. Lauku avīze. 224.—225. lpp.
5. Andrejs Apsītis - Latvian Olympic. http://olimpiade.lv/lv/latvijas-olimpiesi/andrejs-apsitis-328?ref=vasara-1924 (Accessed 4 February 2015)
6. G. Ērenpreis bicycle factory catalogue 1931. Ernst Plates A/S, Rīga. Page 4.