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.