Lavrente Calinov was a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won one silver medals in the C-2 10000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in 1958. He also won 5 silver and bronze medals in the C-2 10000 m event at the European Canoe Sprint World Championships in 1957,^[1] 1958,^[2] 1960,^[3] and 1963.^[4]

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Lavrente Calinov

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Nickname(s)	Kalinka, Cali, Lavric
Citizenship	Romania
Born	(1936-08-16)August 16, 1936 Mila 23, Tulcea County
Died	București
Years active	1956-1968
Spouse	Aniuta Calinov
Sport
Sport	Canoe sprint
Event	C-2 10000 m
Club	1956-1958 CS Steaua 1958-1968 CS Dinamo București
Medal record Men's canoe sprint World Championships 1958 Prague C-2 10,000 m European Championships Gent 1957 C-2 10,000 m Duisburg 1959 C-2 1,000 m Duisburg 1959 C-2 10,000 m Poznan 1961 C-2 10,000 m 1963 Jajce C-2 10,000 m

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Lavrente Calinov was born in the Danube Delta of Romania in the village of Mila 23 accessible only by boat in a Russian speaking Old Believers community known as Lipovans on August 16, 1936. By the time he was 10 he started helping his father Ignat with fishing work in the Danube Delta. At 16 he left home to work in the city of Sulina as a fisherman on the Black Sea until he was drafted in the Romanian conscription-based military service at the time.

Lavrente's career started at the CSA Steaua, which at the time was the sports club ran by the Romanian armed forces, and this is where he won his first two international medals in 1957^[5] and 1958.^[6] He transferred two years later to CS Dinamo București where he stayed until the end of his career. His main event was Sprint Canoe 2 (C2), 10,000 m, but he occasionally competed in the C2 1,000 m event. His stance in the sprint canoe was right handed. His main event was not an Olympic event at the time, so he only competed in World and European championships, never in the Olympics. He retired from the sport in 1968.

He married Aniuta Pogor in 1963 and had two children, Iulian Doroftei born in 1967 and Olga Lucheria born in 1972.