Voldemars Lusis
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Voldemārs Lūsis is a former Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

n athlete, who competed in the javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

. He is the son of Jānis Lūsis
Janis Lusis
Jānis Lūsis is a Latvian athlete who competed in javelin throw.Lūsis trained at Daugava Voluntary Sports Society and later at Armed Forces sports society...

 and Elvīra Ozoliņa
Elvira Ozolina
Elvīra Anatolyevna Ozoliņa is a retired Latvian athlete, who competed in javelin throw. She won the gold medal for the USSR team in the 1960 Olympics and was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour that year.Ozoliņa trained at VSS Burevestnik in Leningrad...

. Lūsis finished in eleventh place in 2001 World Championships
2001 World Championships in Athletics
The 8th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada between 3 August and 12 August and was the first time the event had visited North America...

. He competed at the 2000
2000 Summer Olympics
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 and 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

 without reaching the final. During his career he was coached by Valentīna Eiduka
Valentīna Eiduka
Valentīna Eiduka is a retired Latvian javelin thrower. Currently she is the coach of several notable Latvian javelin throwers, including Olympic medalists Vadims Vasiļevskis and Ainārs Kovals....

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Achievements

1998 European Championships Budapest, Hungary 20th 75.14 m
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 18th 80.08 m
2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada 11th 79.70 m
2003 World Championships
2003 World Championships in Athletics
The 9th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held from 23 August to 31 August 2003 in the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.-Track:...

Paris, France 19th 75.15 m
2004 Olympic Games Athens, Greece 17th 79.27 m

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