Artūras Kasputis
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Full name | Artūras Kasputis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Klaipėda, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | 22 February 1967|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road and track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1992 | Postobón | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993–2002 | Chazal–MBK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2013– | Ag2r–La Mondiale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artūras Kasputis (born 26 February 1967) is a retired track and road racing cyclist from Lithuania, who represented the USSR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.[1] There he won the gold medal in the men's 4.000 team pursuit, alongside Viacheslav Ekimov, Dmitry Nelyubin and Gintautas Umaras. During the Soviet time he trained at Dynamo sports society in Klaipėda.[2] He was a professional road cyclist from 1992 to 2002, and afterwards became a cycling manager in the professional circuit.
Major results
[edit]- 1987
- 1st Overall Tour du Maroc
- 1990
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Colombia
- 1991
- 1st Overall Circuito Montañés
- 1st Circuit du Port de Dunkerque
- Vuelta a Colombia
- 1st Prologue & Stage 7
- 3rd Overall Ronde de l'Isard
- 3rd Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne
- 1992
- 1st Route d'Occitanie
- 1st Overall Route du Sud
- 1st Stage 2a (ITT)
- 1st Chrono des Herbiers
- 5th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 6th Grand Prix des Nations
- 1993
- 2nd Overall Ronde de l'Isard
- 1994
- 1st Stage 1a Route du Sud (ITT)
- 3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 4th Chrono des Herbiers
- 1995
- 5th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 6th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
- 1996
- 1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 5th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque
- 9th Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
- 1997
- 8th Overall Route du Sud
- 9th Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque
- 1998
- 2nd Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque
- 2nd Overall Tour du Vaucluse
- 5th Overall Circuit des Mines
- 1999
- 1st Overall Circuit des Mines
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT)
- 1st Prologue Tour de l'Ain
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 6th Road race
- 8th Grand Prix des Nations
- 2000
- 1st Stage 4b Danmark Rundt (ITT)
- 2nd Overall 4 Jours de Dunkerque
- 1st Stage 2
- 9th Overall Tour de Picardie
- 10th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 2001
- 7th Overall Circuit des Mines
- 2002
- 3rd Overall Circuit Cycliste de la Sarthe
- 7th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 9th Overall Grote Prijs Erik Breukink
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Artūras Kasputis Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
- ^ Panorama of the 1986 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. 1987. p. 179.
External links
[edit]- Artūras Kasputis at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Artūras Kasputis at ProCyclingStats
Categories:
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Lithuanian male cyclists
- Soviet male cyclists
- Lithuanian track cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic cyclists for Lithuania
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Dynamo Sports Club sportspeople
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Sportspeople from Klaipėda
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Lithuanian cycling biography stubs
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs