Raimundas Labuckas
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Raimundas Labuckas (born February 9, 1984) is a
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 ...
n former sprint canoeist who competed from 2005 to 2013. He won four medals in the C-2 200 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
,
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
) and two bronzes (
2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...
,
2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
). Labuckas also competed in the C-2 500 m event at the
2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...
in
Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
, but was eliminated in the semifinals. In 2013, Labuckas officially ended his career, stating that he was ready to use all his experience by being a coach.Kanojų irklavimo čempionas R. Labuckas baigė savo sportinę karjerą
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1984 births Canoeists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Lithuanian male canoeists Living people Olympic canoeists for Lithuania Sportspeople from Vilnius ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian 21st-century Lithuanian sportsmen {{Lithuania-canoe-bio-stub