Saulius Ritter
Lithuanian rower (born 1988)
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Saulius Ritter (born 23 August 1988) is a Lithuanian rower, best known for winning a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2011 European Rowing Championships.
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Medal record
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He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's double sculls with Rolandas Maščinskas.[1]
Ritter and Maščinskas won gold at the 2011 and 2014 European Championships, silver at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships and the 2013 European Championships and bronze medal at the 2016 European Championships.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the same event with Mindaugas Griskonis.[8]
In 2021 Ritter announced about retirement from professional sport.[9]
Biography
Currently living in Trakai. Studying in Mykolas Romeris University.[10]
Personal life
Ritter is engaged to another Lithuanian rower Milda Valčiukaitė.[9]
