Lev Weinstein

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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.{{cite book|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |title=Jews in Sport in the USSR |publisher=Yivoencyclopedia.org |year=1998 |author=Uri Miller |access-date=4 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429023935/http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |archive-date=29 April 2015 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=235 |title=Vainshtein, Lev |publisher=Jewsinsports.org |access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/lev-vaynshteyn-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112617/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/lev-vaynshteyn-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Lev Vaynshteyn Biography and Olympic Results |publisher=Sports-reference.com |date=25 December 2004 |access-date=4 August 2011}}

Early life

Weinstein was born into a Jewish family from Yekaterinburg, Perm Governorate, Russian Empire.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C&dq=Lev+Vainshtein&pg=PA189 |title=The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes; An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars |year= 2007|author= Peter S. Horvitz|publisher=SP Books |isbn=9781561719075 |access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rFo7AQAAIAAJ&q=Lev+Vainshtein |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: sport: a springboard for minorities|year=2004 |author= Paul Yogi Mayer|publisher=Vallentine Mitchell |isbn=9780853035169|access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/jewishlistsphysi00gree |url-access=registration |quote=Lev Vainshtein. |title=The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews |publisher=Schocken Books |author=Martin Harry Greenberg |year= 1979|isbn=9780805237115 |access-date=4 August 2011}}

Shooting career

Vainshtein was affiliated with the Dynamo St. Petersburg club in St. Petersburg.

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.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/completebookofol00wall |url-access=registration |quote=Lev Vainshtein. |title=The complete book of the Olympics |publisher=Viking |author=David Wallechinsky |year=1988|isbn=9780140107715 |access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.the-sports.org/shooting-sports-vainshtein-lev-results-identity-s22-c2-b4-o196-w72486.html |title=Shooting sports – Lev Vainshtein (U.S.S.R.): season totals |publisher=The-sports.org |access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |title=Jews in Sport in the USSR |publisher=Yivoencyclopedia.org |access-date=4 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429023935/http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Sport/Jews_in_Sport_in_the_USSR |archive-date=29 April 2015 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org/medallists-results?athletename=vainshtein&category=&games=&sport=&event=&mengender=true&womengender=false&mixedgender=false&teamclassification=true&individualclassification=true&continent=&country=&goldmedal=false&silvermedal=false&bronzemedal=false&worldrecord=false&olympicrecord=false&targetresults=true |title=Official source: Olympic Records, World Records, Olympic Medalists |publisher=Olympic.org |date=19 July 1952 |access-date=4 August 2011}}{{cite web|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&u=http://suomenmuseotonline.fi/fi/kohde/Suomen%2BMets%25C3%25A4stysmuseo/SMM%2B1710%253A147%3FpathId%3D1.90.2146.%26itemIndex%3D18&ei=Lgw6TtGTO8uRgQeruv3OBg&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCMQ7gEwATge&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLev%2BVainshtein%26start%3D30%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1024%26bih%3D581%26prmd%3Divnso |title=300 m free rifle bronze Lev Vainshtein (USSR), aiming a rifle shootings Olympic Summer Olympics in Helsinki |access-date=4 August 2011}} He came in fifth in the men's 50 metre pistol (60 shots).{{Cite web |date=2020-04-18 |title=Shooting at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 metres {{!}} Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1952/SHO/mens-free-rifle-three-positions-300-metres.html |access-date=2024-11-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132134/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1952/SHO/mens-free-rifle-three-positions-300-metres.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 }}

He also won a number of world, European, and USSR championships in his career. 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.issf-sports.org/results/historicalmedalwinners.ashx |title=Historical Results; Championships |publisher=International Shooting Sport Federation |date=16 July 2011 |access-date=4 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226052932/https://www.issf-sports.org/results/historicalmedalwinners.ashx |archive-date=26 February 2014 |url-status=dead }} 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.

Vainshtein coached the Soviet shooting team at the 1964 Olympics.

Publications

[https://books.google.com/books?id=RIsGMgAACAAJ Sportskytte med pistol och revolver], Lew Weinstein, Svenska Sportskytteförbundet, 1961
[https://books.google.com/books?id=fEvuPgAACAAJ Sportliches Schiessen mit Faustfeuerwaffen], Lew Weinstein, Dt. Schützenbund, 1979