Raimundas Labuckas ( lit. Raimundas Labuckas ; February 9, 1984 , Vilnius ) - Lithuanian canoe-rower , played for the Lithuanian national team in the mid-2000s - early 2010s. Participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, three-time world champion, six-time European champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| A country |  Lithuania |
| Specialization | canoe sprint |
| Date of Birth | February 9, 1984 (aged 35) |
| Place of Birth | Vilnius , USSR |
| Growth | 184 cm |
| Weight | 86 kg |
Biography
Raimundas Labuckas was born on February 9, 1984 in Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR .
He achieved his first serious success at the adult international level in 2006, when he joined the main squad of the Lithuanian national team and attended the European Championship in Czech Rachitsa, from where he brought silver and bronze dignity awards won at a distance of 200 meters among double and quadruple canoes, respectively. In addition, this season he performed at the World Championships in Szeged, Hungary, where he became a bronze medalist in doubles at two hundred meters.
A year later, in the two-hundred-meter discipline of canoe-twos, Labuckas won the European Championship in the Spanish Pontevedra and received bronze at the World Championship in German Duisburg. A year later he defended his championship title by winning the doubles races at the European Championships in Milan. Thanks to a series of successful performances, he was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing - he started here with his permanent team-mate Thomas Gadeikis in doubles at a distance of 500 meters, but managed to reach only the semi-finals stage, where he showed the fourth result at the finish.
After the Beijing Olympics, Raimundas Labuckas remained in the main team of Lithuania's rowing team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2009, he represented the country at the European Championships in German Brandenburg and at the World Championships in Canadian Dartmouth - in both cases he became the winner in his crown discipline S-2 200 m. The following season he repeated this achievement at the European Championship in the Spanish Corvera and at the world championship in Polish Poznan. A year later, at similar competitions in Belgrade and Szeged, he was again the best. The last time showed any significant result in the international arena in the 2012 season, when he won the continent’s championship in Zagreb in doubles two hundred meters, thus becoming the six-time European champion in kayaking and canoeing.
Labuckas tried to qualify for the Olympic Games in London , but could not do this, since the Olympic program did not have distances of 200 and 500 meters, and there was only a distance of 1000 meters, in which he and Gadeikis were not successful. In 2013, he officially announced the completion of the career of a professional athlete, while noting that he intends to remain in rowing as a coach [1] .
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Links
- Raimundas Labuckas - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Raimundas Labuckas - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )