Gintaras Krapikas
Gintaras Krapikas ( born July 6, 1961 in Kretinga ) is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player.
Career
Krapikas played from 1985 to 1990 at Zalgiris Kaunas, during the first three years he was with the club Soviet masters. Subsequently, the Lithuanians decided for a commitment in Germany. In 1992, he was instrumental in that the TuS Iserlohn was able to rise from the 1st to the 2nd Regional Basketball League. In the same year Kaprikas won with the Lithuanian national team the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Barcelona. Three years later at the European Championships in Athens shone even the medal in silver, after wins in the quarter- final against Russia and Croatia in semi-final against the team from the Baltic had to be almost beaten with only 90:96 in the final against Yugoslavia.
At the end of his playing career after the 1998/99 season Gintaras Krapikas stayed for one season as an assistant coach at TuS Iserlohn. A year later the vice European champion returned to his Lithuanian homeland, as an assistant coach, he won with Zalgiris Kaunas 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005, the Lithuanian Championship, also in 2005, the Championship of Baltic Basketball League. From 2002 to 2006 he was also assistant coach of the Lithuanian national team. After another assistant coach station at the Russian club UNICS Kazan Krapikas signed again as an assistant coach at Zalgiris Kaunas in 2008, shortly after he took over the head coaching position from which he retired again in December 2009.
Successes as a player
Success as a coach
- 2001 Lithuanian Champion
- 2003 Lithuanian Champion
- 2004 Lithuanian Champion
- 2005 Lithuanian Champion, Champion of Baltic Basketball League
- 2009 Vice- champion of the Baltic Basketball League
Private
Although Gintaras Krapikas was often employed as a trainer in his native Lithuania and in Russia since 2000, the center of life is his family for ten years in Hofheim am Taunus. There he celebrated 2010 with his wife Inga silver wedding. His daughter Joana studied at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Jura, while his son Gytis is enrolled at the University of Bayreuth in sports economics.