Arturas Veta ( lit. Artūras Vieta ; May 30, 1961 , Šiauliai , Lithuanian SSR , USSR ) - Soviet and Lithuanian kayaker , played for the national teams of the USSR and Lithuania in the mid-1980s - early 1990s. Three-time world champion, multiple champion of the Soviet and Lithuanian national championships, participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. At the competition he represented the sports club Zalgiris, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1989).
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| A country |  Lithuania |
| Specialization | kayak , 10,000 m |
| Club | Альalgiris |
| Date of Birth | May 30, 1961 (58 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Siauliai , Lithuanian SSR , USSR |
| Growth | 191 cm |
| Weight | 95 kg |
Biography
Arturas Veta was born on May 30, 1961 in the city of Siauliai . He began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, was trained at the Zalgiris Sports Club in Kaunas .
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 1983, when he became a member of the Soviet national team and thanks to a series of successful performances he was awarded the right to defend the honor of the country at the World Championships in Tampere, Finland - in the end he went up to the podium three times: he won silver medals in singles at a distance of 1000 meters and fours at a distance of 500 meters, as well as a bronze medal at four at a distance of 1000 meters.
In 1985, Veta went to the world championship in the Belgian Mechelen, from where he brought the silver dignity award won in the kilometer classification of four-seater kayaks. Two years later, at similar competitions in Duisburg, Germany, four won gold at five hundred meters and a bronze at a thousand. Two years later, at the World Championships in Bulgarian Plovdiv, he took gold in fours at ten kilometers and silver in doubles at one kilometer. At the end of the season, he was awarded the honorary title " Honored Master of Sports of the USSR " for outstanding sports achievements. The last time he achieved success at major international regattas in 1990 at the world championship in Polish Poznan, where he exactly repeated last year's result, thus becoming the three-time world champion in kayaking and canoeing.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he played for the Lithuanian team for some time, although he did not win big victories. In 1992, he represented the Lithuanian rowing team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona - he started in the program of single kayaks at distances of 500 and 1000 meters, but in both cases he finished in the finals only in ninth.
Having completed the career of a professional athlete, he switched to coaching. He currently works as a rowing coach in the sports center of Trakai .
Links
- Arturas Veta - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Arturas Veta - medals at major international competitions
- Veta Arturas (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1154 days]) - a brief biographical information on the Yandex.Dictionaries website
- List of USSR kayaking and canoeing champions (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1154 days])