Career
Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of tenth in the four-man event at Vancouver in 2010. Currently he is a coach of the Latvian skeleton team In the 2005-2006 season, Arhipovs had a 15th-place from Lake Placid, New York as his best result.
He took over from Gatis Gūts as the second Latvian four-man bobsleigh representative in bobsleigh World Cup events.
He had a fifth and eighth placing from the 2005 Junior World Championships. At the 2007 FIBT World Championships in Saint Moritz, Arhipovs finished 20th in the two-man event and 18th in the four-man event.
He retired early due to an injury.
