Giedrius Bieliauskas
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| Nationality | Lithuanian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 July 1997 [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Single sculls | ||||||||||||||
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Giedrius Bieliauskas (born 27 July 1997) is a Lithuanian rower. He won a bronze medal at the 2024 European Rowing Championships and placed tenth overall competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the single sculls.
Career
In 2018, he won silver in the single sculls at the 2018 European Rowing U23 Championships held at the Brest Rowing Course in Brest, Belarus.[2]
He travelled as a non-competing reserve for the Lithuania national rowing team to the delayed 2020 Olympic Games, held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2021.[3]
He won a bronze medal in the single sculls at the 2024 European Rowing Championships in Szeged, Hungary finishing behind the European champion Oliver Zeidler of Germany, while silver was won by Olympic champion Stefanos Ntouskos of Greece, with Bieliauskas sealing bronze on the finish line after a close battle with rower from Denmark, Sverri Sandberg Nielsen, to win the bronze medal in a time of 7:43.35.[4][5]
He qualified for the Olympic Games through his performance at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland, in May 2024.[6] He competed in the single sculls at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.[7] Competing at the Games, he qualified for the quarter-finals, placing third in his heat moving ahead of Slovenian Ivan Zvegelja in the final metres of the finish, with only 0.27 seconds separating them at the finish.[8][9] He finishes second in his quarter final behind Individual Neutral Athlete Yauheni Zalaty.[10] He finishes in sixth place in his semi-final and did not progress to the A Olympic final.[11] He finished in fourth place in the B final to finish the Olympic Games in tenth place overall.[12]
References
- ^ "Giedrius Bieliauskas". World Rowing. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "ROMANIA TOPS MEDAL TABLE AT EUROPEAN UNDER-23 CHAMPIONSHIPS". World Rowing. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Gimtadienį galingu finišu pažymėjęs G.Bieliauskas: "Kitą kartą neklysiu"". Sportas.lt. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Pribloškė net komentatorių: G.Bieliauskas neįtikėtinu spurtu išplėšė Europos čempionato medalį". sportas.lt. 28 April 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Rower Giedrius Bieliauskas: "I surprised myself"". sportas. 29 April 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Giedrius Bieliauskas will compete in the Paris Olympic Games". smbangputys.lt. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Bieliauskas and Senkutė, who rowed impressively in the selection, won direct tickets to the quarterfinals". delfi.lt. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Bieliauskas and Senkutė rowed impressively in the qualifying round and secured direct tickets to the quarterfinals". Delfi.lt. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Rower Giedrius Bieliauskas, who joked about smooth water: "I'm better when the wind blows, there are waves"". tv3.lt. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Olympics: Rower Balraj Panwar finishes 5th in single sculls quarterfinals, to fight for 13-24 places". New Indian Express. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Olimpinei čempionei iššūkį metusi V.Senkutė pateko į A finalą, G.Bieliausko greitis drastiškai krito". Sportas.lt. 1 August 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Giedrius Bieliauskas finished tenth at the Olympic Games". 5min.lt. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2025.