Artūras Kasputis (born 26 February 1967) is a retired
track and
road racing cyclist from
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
, who represented the
USSR
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at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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in
Seoul, South Korea
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.
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 KlaipÄ—da.
He was a professional road cyclist from 1992 to 2002, and afterwards became a cycling manager in the professional circuit.
Major results
;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
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: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
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::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
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;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
External links
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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 KlaipÄ—da
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
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