Birutė Šakickienė

Birutė Šakickienė (born November 26, 1968 in Utena ) is a former Lithuanian rower who won the bronze medal in a double scull at the 2000 Olympic Games together with Kristina Poplavskaja . Until August 2016, that was the only Olympic medal in rowing for Lithuania.

Birutė Šakickienė had at the World Championships in 1994 to ninth place with the Lithuanian sculls reached. At the 1996 Olympic Games , she rowed in a single , the 1.86 m tall woman rowed 14th place. From 1997 she rowed with Kristina Poplavskaja in double sculls, at the 1997 and 1998 World Championships the two took seventh place. 1999 in St. CatharinesThe two reached an A-final at international championships for the first time and finished fourth behind the boats from Germany, China and the Netherlands. The Chinese did not reach the A final at the Olympic regatta 2000 in Sydney, the two Lithuanians won the bronze medal behind the Germans and the Dutch. At the 2001 World Championships , the two Lithuanians reached the A-final, but were fifth more than seven seconds behind the bronze medal. At their last joint participation in the World Cup in Seville in 2002 , they finished seventh.

Web links

• Birutė Šakickienė in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Birutė Šakickienė at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )