club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
silainiai kaunas , lithuanian ssr 73 kg lb 0 on 1.73 0 on 30 january 1985 rimvydas Šalčius
 butterfly rimvydas Šalčius
rimvydas Šalčius

rimvydas Šalčius -lrb- born january 30 , 1985 in kaunas -rrb- is a lithuanian swimmer , who specialized in butterfly events .
he is a multiple-time lithuanian champion , and a two-time national record holder in both the men 's butterfly and medley relay events .
he also set a junior record time of 53.25 seconds by winning the gold medal in the men 's 100 m butterfly at the 2003 european championships in glasgow , scotland .
salcius made his official debut , as a 19-year-old , at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , where he competed in the men 's 100 m butterfly .
he touched out colombia 's camilo becerra by a quarter of a second -lrb- 0.25 -rrb- to take a fourth spot and thirty-fifth overall in the fourth heat , with a time of 54.45 seconds .
four years later , salcius qualified for his second lithuanian team , as a 23-year-old , at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing .
he cleared a fina b-standard entry time of 54.16 from the european championships in eindhoven , netherlands .
unlike his previous games , salcius posted his lifetime best and broke a lithuanian record of 52.90 seconds to touch the wall first in heat 3 by less than 0.18 of a second ahead of three-time olympian jeremy knowles of the bahamas .
salcius failed to advance again into the semifinals , as he placed thirty-fourth out of 66 swimmers in the preliminary heats .
he also tied his position with canada 's joe bartoch .
