Rimas Kurtinaitis

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Rimas Kurtinaitis
No. 10,12
Shooting guard
Personal information
Born May 15, 1960 (1960-05-15) (age 51)
Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
Nationality  Lithuanian
Career information
Pro career 1981–1999
Career history

As Player

As Coach

Career highlights and awards
  • 5-time USSR League Champion 1982,1983,1985,1986,1987
  • ACB Champion - 1994
  • LKL All-Star game MVP - 1995
Career statistics
Points ?
Rebound ?
Assists ?
Medal record
Men's Basketball
Competitor for  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold 1988 Seoul Men's basketball
World championships
Silver Spain 1986 USSR
European Championships
Gold 1985 West Germany USSR
Bronze 1989 Yugoslavia USSR
Competitor for  Lithuania
Olympic Games
Bronze 1992 Barcelona National team
Bronze 1996 Atlanta National team
European Championships
Silver 1995 Greece National team

Rimas Kurtinaitis (born May 15, 1960 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR) is a professional basketball coach, head coach of the BC Khimki, retired Soviet and Lithuanian basketball player who was a member of the USSR and Lithuanian national basketball teams. He played as a shooting guard and is the only non-NBA player to participate in the NBA All-Star Three Point Contest in 1989. He is 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall. 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.

In 1997 he was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport, and in 2003 he took the position of head coach of the Azerbaijan national basketball team.

He became BC Sakalai head coach during the mid 2000s (decade). In December 2007 he became head coach of Polish men's Śląsk Wrocław basketball team.[1] In 2008 he became head coach of BC Lietuvos Rytas with whom he won the 2009 Eurocup Basketball title in the Final-Eight tournament in Turin(Torino), Italy in a game against Khimky Moscow Region (Final score 80-74).

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As player:

As head coach:

[edit] References

  1. ^ "EUROBASKET - Lithuanian basketball". Eurobasket.net. Archived from the original on 2007-05-09. http://web.archive.org/web/20070509133853/http://www.eurobasket.com/ltu/ltu.asp. Retrieved 2007-06-21. 

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