Rimas Kurtinaitis

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Olympic medal record
Men's Basketball
Gold 1988 Seoul USSR
Bronze 1992 Barcelona Lithuania
Bronze 1996 Atlanta Lithuania

Rimas Kurtinaitis (born May 15, 1960 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR) is a former basketball player for the USSR and Lithuanian national basketball teams, current assistant coach for the latter. He played as a shooting guard and he is also known as the best European three-point shooter in the 1980s. He is 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall. In 1997 he was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport, in 2003 he took the position as a head coach of Azerbaijan National Team.

Now he is BC Sakalai head coach.

[edit] Awards/Achievements

  • World Champion - 1982
  • World championship Silver medalist - 1986
  • European champion - 1985
  • European championship Silver medalist - 1987, 1995
  • European championship Bronze medalist - 1989
  • Olympic champion - 1988
  • Olympic Bronze medalist - 1992
  • USSR champion - 1985, 1986, 1987
  • Spanish ACB champion - 1994
  • LKL All-Star game MVP - 1996

His former teams include Žalgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, and Real Madrid. Kurtinaitis was also the first European player to play as an import in Australia's National Basketball League, playing for the Townsville Suns in 1993.

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