Valdemaras Venckaitis

Valdemaras Venckaitis
Personal information
Nationality  Lithuania
Born (1983-09-04) September 4, 1983
Vilnius, Lithuania
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb)
Sport
Sport Wrestling
Event(s) Greco-Roman
Club LOSC Vilnius (LTU)
Coached by Ruslan Vartanov

Valdemaras Venckaitis (born September 4, 1983 in Vilnius) is a Greco-Roman wrestler from Lithuania, who competed for the men's 74 kg (middleweight division) at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[1] He was eliminated in the first round of the competition, after being defeated by Peru's Sixto Barrera, and finished in fourteenth place.

Venckaitis also won the bronze medal for his category at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. He is the brother of Edgaras Venckaitis, who later competed for the lightweight division at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

References

  1. "Valdemaras Venckaitis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 19 November 2012.


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