Rimas Kurtinaitis

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Rimas Kurtinaitis

Men's Basketball
Olympic medal record
Gold	1988 Seoul	USSR
Bronze	1992 Barcelona	Lithuania
Bronze	1996 Atlanta	Lithuania

Rimas Kurtinaitis (born May 15, 1960 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a former basketball player for the USSR and Lithuanian national basketball teams, current head coach for Slask Wroclaw. He played as a shooting guard and is the only non-NBA player to participate in the NBA All Star Three Point Contest in 1989. He is 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall. In 1997 he was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport, and in 2003 he took the position of head coach of the Azerbaijan National Team.

He became BC Sakalai head coach during the mid 2000s. In December 2007 he became head coach of Polish men's Slask Wroclaw basketball team. ^[1]

[edit] Awards and achievements

World Champion - 1982
World championship Silver medalist - 1986
European champion - 1985
European championship Silver medalist - 1987, 1995
European championship Bronze medalist - 1989
Olympic champion - 1988
Olympic Bronze medalist - 1992
USSR champion in BC Žalgiris - 1985, 1986, 1987
Spanish ACB champion in Real Madrid Baloncesto - 1994
LKL All-Star game MVP - 1996

His former teams include Žalgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, and Real Madrid. Kurtinaitis was also the first European player to play as an import in Australia's National Basketball League, playing for the Townsville Suns in 1993.

[edit] Reference

^ EUROBASKET - Lithuanian basketball. Retrieved on 2007-06-21.

[edit] External link

ACB.com Profile

v • d • e Soviet Union squad - 1986 FIBA World Championship Finalists - Silver medal

4 Volkov \| 5 Sokk \| 6 Tarakanov \| 7 Grichaiev \| 8 Ekabson \| 9 Tikhonenko \| 10 Valters \| 11 Tkachenko \| 12 Kurtinaitis \| 13 Chomičius \| 14 Belostenny \| 15 Sabonis \| Coach: Obukhov

v • d • e 1988 Olympic Champions Men's Basketball – Soviet Union

Aleksandr Volkov \| Tiit Sokk \| Sergei Tarakanov \| Šarūnas Marčiulionis \| Igors Miglieneks \| Valeri Tikhonenko \| Rimas Kurtinaitis \| Arvydas Sabonis \| Viktor Pankrashkin \| Valdemaras Chomičius \| Aleksandr Belostennyi \| Valeri Goborov \| Coach: Alexander Gomelsky

v • d • e 1992 Olympic Bronze Medalists Men's Basketball – Lithuania

Valdemaras Chomičius \| Alvydas Pazdrazdis \| Arūnas Visockas \| Darius Dimavičius \| Romanas Brazdauskis \| Gintaras Krapikas \| Rimas Kurtinaitis \| Arvydas Sabonis \| Artūras Karnišovas \| Šarūnas Marčiulionis \| Gintaras Einikis \| Sergėjus Jovaiša \| Coach: Vladas Garastas

v • d • e 1996 Olympic Bronze Medalists Men's Basketball – Lithuania

Arvydas Sabonis \| Rimas Kurtinaitis \| Darius Lukminas \| Saulius Štombergas \| Eurelijus Žukauskas \| Šarūnas Marčiulionis \| Mindaugas Žukauskas \| Gintaras Einikis \| Andrius Jurkūnas \| Artūras Karnišovas \| Rytis Vaišvila \| Tomas Pačėsas \| Coach: Vladas Garastas