Vytautas Briedis

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The Soviet eighth at the 1964 European Championships, Briedis is the fourth rower from the right (facing the camera), the first (with his back to the camera) is the helmsman Juri Lorenzson .

Julius Vytautas Briedis (born August 27, 1940 in Nausėdžiai , Lithuanian SSR ; † September 22, 2019 in Vilnius , Lithuania ) was a Soviet rower who won an Olympic bronze medal in 1968.

Athletic career

The 1.89 m tall Vytautas Briedis from Žalgiris Vilnius won the silver medal with the Soviet eighth at the 1962 World Championships in Lucerne behind the Germany eighth . Also at the European Championships in 1963 and 1964 Briedis won the silver medal behind the German boat with the Soviet eighth.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, the boats from Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union won the preliminary runs, three other boats reached the finals via the hope runs. In the final, the Soviet eighth finished fifth, over five seconds behind the third-placed Czechoslovaks.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Briedis rowed eighth in the Soviet eight like four years earlier. In the preliminary run, the Soviet eight took third place behind the boats from New Zealand and the GDR. With a second place behind Australia, the crew reached the final. There the Germany eight won with a second ahead of the Australians, another second behind the Soviet team won the bronze medal.

Briedis won six Soviet championship titles in rowing from 1961 to 1965 and 1969, he was second in 1966 and 1967 and third in 1970. After his career, Briedis worked as a rowing trainer and functionary, initially at Dinamo Vilnius and in the Lithuanian rowing association. From 1990 he was in the Lithuanian Sports Federation and later director of the Center of Olympic Sports.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Netektis irklavimo pasaulyje: užgeso olimpinio prizininko Vytauto Briedžio gyvybė (message from September 22, 2019 on lrt.lt, accessed on April 13, 2020)
  2. ↑ World Championships in figure eight at sport-komplett.de
  3. ↑ European Championships in eighth at sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 761f
  5. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 127f
  6. ^ Entry in the Lithuanian sports encyclopedia
personal data
SURNAME Briedis, Vytautas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Briedis, Julius Vytautas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet rower
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Nausėdžiai , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 22nd September 2019
Place of death Vilnius