Rimantas Kaukėnas

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Basketball player
Rimantas Kaukėnas
Rimantas Kaukėnas (2013)
Player information
birthday April 11, 1977
place of birth Vilnius , Soviet Union
size 194 cm
position Shooting Guard
college Seton Hall University
Clubs as active
000001996 KK Šilutė 1996–2000 Seton Hall Pirates ( NCAA ) 2000–2001 Hapoel Galil Elyon 2001–2002 Lietuvos rytas Vilnius 2002–2003 Telindus Oostende 2003–2004 Telekom Baskets Bonn 2004–2005 Vertical Vision Cantù 2005–2009 Montepaschi Siena 2009–2010 Real Madrid 2010–2012 Montepaschi Siena 2012–2013 Žalgiris Kaunas 2013 Laboral Kutxa 2013–2017 Grissin Bon Reggio EmiliaLithuania 1989Lithuania
United StatesUnited States
IsraelIsrael
Lithuania 1989Lithuania
BelgiumBelgium
GermanyGermany
ItalyItaly
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SpainSpain
ItalyItaly
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ItalyItaly
National team
2000-2012 Lithuania
Rimantas Kaukėnas medal table

Basketball (men)

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Rimantas Kaukėnas (born April 11, 1977 in Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Lithuanian basketball player . Kaukėnas played in various European countries and won the Italian championship five times with Montepaschi Siena, among others , three times as a double in connection with victory in the cup competition. After winning the Lithuanian championship with Lietuvos rytas Vilnius in 2002, he was last able to repeat this success in 2013 with Žalgiris Kaunas. The two-time Olympian won a bronze medal with the Lithuanian national team at the 2007 European Championship finals .

Career

Kaukėnas went in 1996 like his compatriot Artūras Karnišovas before him to Seton Hall University in the NCAA , where he played until 2000. After a season in Israel with Hapoel Galil Elyon , he moved back to Lithuania to Lietuvos rytas Vilnius . With this club he became Lithuanian champion and title holder of the NEBL in 2002 . This was followed by a season in Belgium with Telindus Oostende before Kaukėnas played in the 2003/04 basketball league for Telekom Baskets Bonn . He was voted MVP of the BBL All-Star Games that season. In 2004 Kaukėnas went to Italy to Vertical Vision Cantù before moving to Montepaschi Siena for the following season . With this club he won the Italian championship in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and was named the most valuable player in the final series in 2007 . At the beginning of January 2008, he suffered a knee injury that caused him to miss the final four of the Euroleague and only to play again in the semi-finals of the Italian championship. In July 2009, Kaukėnas moved to the Spanish record champions Real Madrid . There his contract was not renewed after a year due to a lack of success, and Kaukėnas returned to Siena, where he again won two championships with the series champion. In the 2012/13 season he played in his homeland for Žalgiris Kaunas , who could clearly defeat the arch-rivals and former club of Kaukėnas, Lietuvos rytas, in the finals of the championship. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season, Kaukėnas got a fixed-term contract with Laboral Kutxa from Vitoria-Gasteiz in the ACB league after Thomas Kelati was injured . He then moved back to Italy, where he played for the first division club Grissin Bon from the province of Reggio Emilia from mid-December 2013 .

Kaukėnas made his debut in the national team in 2000 and was also part of the squad for the 2001 European Championship . In the following years, however, he was in the shadow of Arvydas Macijauskas , so that he was not one of the European champions of 2003. When winning the bronze medal in the European Championship in 2007 and in the semi-finals in the Olympic basketball competition in 2008 , however, Kaukėnas was one of the top performers of the national team.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beko BBL - player statistics: Rimantas Kaukenas (Telekom Baskets Bonn). Basketball Bundesliga , accessed on October 24, 2013 (player profile on statistics pages).
  2. ↑ ACB.COM: R. Kaukenas. Liga ACB , accessed December 14, 2013 (Spanish, player profile).
  3. ↑ Laboral Kutxa lands Rimas Kaukenas for a month. ULEB , October 24, 2013, accessed October 24, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Kaukenas Joins Reggio Emilia. FIBA Europa , December 12, 2013, accessed December 14, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaukėnas, Rimantas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaukenas, Rimantas (without diacritical marks)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union