death_date club weight height sport birth_date article_title
3 january 1996 -lrb- aged 62 -rrb- Žalgiris vilnius , dynamo moscow 72 kg lb on 1.74 m ftin on rowing 6 may 1933 ričardas vaitkevičius

ričardas vaitkevičius

ričardas vaitkevičius -lrb- 6 may 1933 -- 3 january 1996 -rrb- was a lithuanian rower who specialized in the eights .
in this event he won three silver medal at the european and world championships of 1962 -- 1964 and finished fifth at the 1964 summer olympics .
while competing vaitkevičius also acted as a soviet rowing coach at the 1964 and 1968 olympics , and he continued coaching and refeering rowing competitions until 1993 .
his elder brother eugenijus -lrb- 1931 -- 2011 -rrb- and wife irena bačiulytė were also a competitive rowers and rowing coaches .
