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Igor Lipalit
Romanian canoeist
Igor Lipalit (January 14, 1940 – June 2021) was a Romanian 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 Jajce. Competing in two Summer Olympics, Lipalit earned his best finish of fourth in the C-2 1000 m event at Rome in 1960, where his C-2 partner was Alexe Dumitru.[1] He was also said to have played a role in recruiting Vasile Dîba to CS Dinamo București, where he became a coach.[2][3][4][5]