Lev Weinstein

Lev Matveyevich Vainshtein (also "Vaynshteyn" and "Lew Weinstein"; 12 March 1916 – 25 December 2004) was a Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting.^[1][2][3]

Lev Vainshtein

Personal information
Born	(1916-03-12)12 March 1916 Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburgsky Uyezd, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	25 December 2004(2004-12-25) (aged 88)
Sport
Country	Soviet Union
Sport	Shooting
Events	free rifle 300 metre rifle three positions 50 metre pistol
Club	Dynamo St. Petersburg
Medal record Olympic medal record Men's Shooting Representing the  Soviet Union 1952 Helsinki free rifle 300 metre rifle three positions ISSF World Shooting Championships 1954 Caracas 25 m Center-Fire Pistol Team 1954 Caracas 50 m Pistol Team 1958 Moscow 50 m Pistol Team 1958 Moscow 25 m Center-Fire Pistol Team

Early life

Weinstein was born into a Jewish family from Yekaterinburg, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire.^[2][4][5][6]

Shooting career

Vainshtein was affiliated with the Dynamo St. Petersburg club in St. Petersburg.^[3]

He won a bronze medal in shooting at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, in the free rifle 300 metre rifle three positions, as his teammate Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov won the gold medal, and Robert Bürchler of Switzerland won the silver medal.^{[4][6][7][8][9][10][11]} He came in fifth in the men's 50 metre pistol (60 shots).^[8][12]

He also won a number of world, European, and USSR championships in his career.^[9] He won gold medals as part of the Soviet Union team in both the 25 metre center-fire pistol and the 50 metre pistol in the 1954 World Championships in Caracas.^[13] Four years later, he again won a gold medal with the Soviet team in the 50 metre pistol at the 1958 World Championships in Moscow, and was part of the Soviet silver medal-winning Soviet team in the 25 metre center-fire pistol.^[13]

Vainshtein coached the Soviet shooting team at the 1964 Olympics.^[2]

Publications

• Sportskytte med pistol och revolver, Lew Weinstein, Svenska Sportskytteförbundet, 1961
• Sportliches Schiessen mit Faustfeuerwaffen, Lew Weinstein, Dt. Schützenbund, 1979

See also

• List of select Jewish shooters

References

1. Uri Miller (1998). Jews in Sport in the USSR. Yivoencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
2. "Vainshtein, Lev". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
3. "Lev Vaynshteyn Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. 25 December 2004. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
4. Peter S. Horvitz (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes; An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. SP Books. ISBN 9781561719075. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
5. Paul Yogi Mayer (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities. Vallentine Mitchell. ISBN 9780853035169. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
6. Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books. ISBN 9780805237115. Retrieved 4 August 2011. Lev Vainshtein.
7. David Wallechinsky (1988). The complete book of the Olympics. Viking. ISBN 9780140107715. Retrieved 4 August 2011. Lev Vainshtein.
8. "Shooting sports – Lev Vainshtein (U.S.S.R.): season totals". The-sports.org. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
9. "Jews in Sport in the USSR". Yivoencyclopedia.org. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
10. "Official source: Olympic Records, World Records, Olympic Medalists". Olympic.org. 19 July 1952. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
11. "300 m free rifle bronze Lev Vainshtein (USSR), aiming a rifle shootings Olympic Summer Olympics in Helsinki". Retrieved 4 August 2011.
12. "Shooting at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". 18 April 2020. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
13. "Historical Results; Championships". International Shooting Sport Federation. 16 July 2011. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2011.