Artūras Kasputis
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Artūras Kasputis (born February 22, 1967 in Klaipėda) is a retired track and road cyclist from Lithuania, who represented the USSR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There he won the gold medal in the men's 4.000 team pursuit, alongside Viacheslav Ekimov, Dmitry Neliubin and Gintautas Umaras. During the Soviet time he trained at Dynamo sports society in Klaipėda.[1] He was a professional road cyclist from 1992 to 2002, and afterwards became a cycling manager in the professional circuit.
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- ^ (1987) Panorama of the 1986 Sports Year (in Russian). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport, p. 179.
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