Gintaras Krapikas
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| birthday | July 6, 1961 | |
| place of birth | Kretinga , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union | |
| size | 197 cm | |
| position | Small forward | |
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1984–1990 Žalgiris Kaunas 1990–1999 TuS Iserlohn 
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| 1992-1995 | Lithuania | |
| Clubs as coaches | ||
1999–2000 TuS Iserlohn assistant coach 2000–2006 Žalgiris Kaunas assistant coach 2006–2008 UNICS Kazan assistant coach 2008–2009 Žalgiris Kaunas head coach 2010–2011 KK Nevėžis head coach 2011–2012 Azovmasch head coach 2014–2016 Žalgiris Kaunas head coach
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Gintaras Krapikas (born July 6, 1961 in Kretinga ) is a Lithuanian basketball coach and former basketball player.
Career
Krapikas played from 1985 to 1990 for Žalgiris Kaunas , in the first three years he was with the club of Soviet champions. The Lithuanian then decided to work in Germany. In 1992 he made a decisive contribution to the fact that TuS Iserlohn could move up from the 1st regional league to the 2nd basketball league . In the same year Kaprikas won the bronze medal with the Lithuanian national team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . Three years later at the European Championships in Athens, the medal even shone in silver, after successes in the quarter-finals against Russia and in the semi-finals against Croatia, the team from the Baltic states only had to admit defeat 90:96 in the final against Yugoslavia.
At the end of his active career after the 1998/99 season, Gintaras Krapikas stayed for one season as an assistant coach at TuS Iserlohn. A year later, the vice European champion returned to his Lithuanian homeland, as assistant coach he won the Lithuanian championship with Zalgiris Kaunas in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, and in 2005 the championship of the Baltic Basketball League . From 2002 to 2006 he was also assistant coach of the Lithuanian national team. After another assistant coaching position at the Russian club UNICS Kazan , Krapikas signed again as assistant coach at Zalgiris Kaunas in 2008, a short time later he took over the head coach position, from which he resigned in December 2009.
Success as a player
- 1985 Soviet champion
- 1986 Soviet champion
- 1987 Soviet champion
- 1992 promotion to the 2nd basketball league in Germany
- 1992
bronze medalist at the Olympic Games
- 1995 Vice European Champion
Success as a trainer
- 2001 Lithuanian champion
- 2003 Lithuanian champion
- 2004 Lithuanian champion
- 2005 Lithuanian champion, champion of the Baltic Basketball League
- 2009 runner-up in the Baltic Basketball League
- 2014 Lithuanian champion
Private
When Gintaras Krapikas was often employed as a trainer in his home country Lithuania and Russia from 2000 , his family's center of life had been in Hofheim am Taunus for ten years . There he celebrated his silver wedding anniversary with his wife Inga in 2010. His daughter Joana Krapikaitė, basketball player at TV Hofheim II, is studying law at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , while his son Gytis is enrolled in business administration at the University of Graz .
Web links
- Gintaras Krapikas in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.iserlohn-kangaroos.de/fileadmin/downloads/kangaroos-saisonheft-08-09.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.basketnews.lt/person-33-gintaras-krapikas.html
- ↑ Schröder's free throws save TV Hofheim
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Krapikas, Gintaras |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian basketball coach and player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kretinga |