Vytautas Butkus
Vytautas Butkus (born December 20, 1949 in Kaunas , Lithuanian SSR ) is a former Soviet rower who won an Olympic silver medal in 1976.
Athletic career
The 1.90 m wide Vytautas Butkus of Žalgiris Kaunas took in 1973 in one of the European Championships in Moscow and won the silver medal behind the West German Peter-Michael Kolbe and before the East Germans Wolfgang Güldenpfennig .
Two years later rowed Butkus in the World Championships 1975 in Nottingham in the quadruple sculls . Vytautas Butkus, Juri Jakimow , Aivars Lazdenieks and Jewgeni Dulejew rowed the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR (with gold pennies ) and Czechoslovakia.
At the 1976 Olympic Games , the Soviet double sculls appeared in the same line-up as in the previous year. In the run-up, the boat won with a three second lead over the double foursome from the GDR and qualified directly for the final. In the final, the crew from the GDR won with one second ahead of the Soviet double scull, while the Czechoslovaks won the bronze medal just under two seconds behind.
In 1977 the Soviet double foursome started with the same line-up at the World Championships in Amsterdam , but only finished second in the B final and eighth place in the overall standings.
After his career, Butkus worked as a rowing coach.
Web links
- Vytautas Butkus at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Vytautas Butkus in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ World Championships in quadruples at sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 558
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butkus, Vytautas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaunas , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union |