Igor Lipalit (January 14, 1940 – June 28, 2021) was a

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n sprint canoer who competed in the early 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 10000 m event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in

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. Competing in two

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, Lipalit earned his best finish of fourth in the C-2 1000 m event at

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, where his C-2 partner was Alexe Dumitru. He was also said to have played a role in recruiting Vasile Dîba to

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, where he became a coach.

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Igor Lipalit's profile at Sports Reference.comIgor Lipalit's obituary
1940 births 2021 deaths Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for Romania Romanian male canoeists Romanian people of Russian descent ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Place of birth missing 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-canoe-bio-stub