Romas Ubartas
Appearance
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Nationality | Lithuanian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 26 May 1960 Panevėžys, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | (age 64)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 120 kg (265 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus throw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 70.06 m (1988) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Romas Ubartas (born 26 May 1960 in Panevėžys) is a retired male discus thrower from Lithuania who won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR and a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Lithuania. His personal best was 70.06m. He also became European champion, in 1986. When Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, he trained at Dynamo in Vilnius. In 1993, after finishing fourth at the World Track and Field Championships last month in Germany, Ubartas failed a doping test[1] and was disqualified for four years.
Achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1986 | European Championships | Stuttgart, West Germany | 1st | Discus | 67.08 m |
1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | 2nd | Discus | 67.48 m |
1990 | Goodwill Games | Seattle, United States | 1st | Discus | 67.14 m |
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1992 | Olympic Games | Barcelona, Spain | 1st | Discus | 65.12 m |
1998 | European Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 9th | Discus | 61.66 m |
2001 | World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 14th | Discus | 61.49 m |
2002 | Lithuanian Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 2nd | Discus | 52.60 m |
See also
References
- ^ "Shot-putter Stulce Says He'll Appeal Drug Test". Retrieved 2016-07-25.
External links
- Romas Ubartas at World Athletics
- Romas Ubartas at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Soviet male discus throwers
- Lithuanian male discus throwers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Doping cases in athletics
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Lithuanian sportspeople in doping cases
- Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year winners
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Lithuania
- Olympic athletes of the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for Lithuania
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Sportspeople from Panevėžys
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Goodwill Games medalists in athletics
- Lithuanian athletics biography stubs
- Lithuanian sportspeople stubs
- European Olympic medalist stubs