 2022 European Championships | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Lithuanian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 July 1997 [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Single sculls | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In 2018, he won silver in the single sculls at the 2018 European Rowing U23 Championships. [2]
He travelled as a non-competing reserve to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021. [3]
He won a bronze medal in the single sculls at the 2024 European Rowing Championships in Szeged, Hungary. [4] [5]
He qualified for the Olympic Games through his performance at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne in May 2024. [6] He competed in the single sculls at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [7] He qualified for the quarter-finals. [8]
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