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Born | Kaunas, Lithuania | 22 March 1998|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 86 kg (190 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Armandas Kelmelis (born 22 March 1998) is a Lithuanian rower.
In 2016 less than a month before 2016 Summer Olympics started, he was selected to Olympic team due withdrawal of injured Rolandas Maščinskas. [1] Kelmelis finished 19th in the men's single sculls event. [2] [3]
He also competed for Lithuania at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 10th in the men's quadruple sculls event, [4] with Martynas Džiaugys, Dovydas Nemeravičius and Dominykas Jančionis. [5]
Kelmelis won a bronze medal at the 2022 European Rowing Championships in the men's double sculls event with Dovydas Nemeravičius.
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