Kęstutis Jurgis Bulota

Kęstutis Bulota (23 October 1896 – 1941) was a Lithuanian multi-sport athlete who participated in the 1928 Winter Olympics in speed skating. In 1922 and 1923 he played for the LFLS Kaunas football club. He was the Lithuanian champion in multiple sports, including holding national records in racewalking, the triple jump, and relay sprinting.

In 1928, Bulota become Lithuania's first winter Olympian. His best result was fifth place in the 10,000 metres race. In 1941, Bulota was deported to Siberia by Soviet authorities. He died there, while trying to escape from one of the Gulag labour camps when he was shot by security officers.[1][2]\

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Kęstutis Bulota (October 23, 1896, according to other data, or baptized November 8 in Tallinn - Russia in 1941 or 1942) - engineer-builder, sports figure, cycling, football, speed skating, basketball, hockey and the pioneer of other sports in Lithuania.

Biography [edit] edit wiki text] Born in the family of Jonas Jurgis Bulotas. The exact date of birth is unknown (different data: October 23, November 8, November 16). 1921 worked in Soviet Russia, in the Lithuanian mission. 1923 month of January. participated in the Klaipėda region uprising, platoon leader.

It popularized various sports in Lithuania. 1922 April 23 He played in the first Lithuanian basketball match in Kaunas. 1922 with Kaunas LFLS became the first Lithuanian football champion. 1923 with Kaunas LFLS - and the winner of the second Lithuanian football championship. 1922 reached the Lithuanian trilogy record, in 1922 and 1926. - sport walking record [1], 1927-1931. - Speed ​​skating record holder. 1928 became the first athlete to represent Lithuania at the Winter Olympics in Saint Morice (Switzerland). Raced in all four skating races. The best result is 5th place (10,000 m distance). While studying in Berlin, 1929-1930. played hockey for the Berlin Skating Club (B.S.C.) team. 1931 He became a Lithuanian hockey master in Kaunas LFLS club. 1932 On February 27, 2006, he participated in the first cross-border match of the Lithuanian hockey team with the Latvian national team in Riga. Studied in Berlin, where in 1930. graduated from Berlin University. He later worked in the Ministry of Transport and Communications, 1935–1940. - Director of the Roads and Construction Directorate.

1941 June 14 arrested by the NKVD and deported to the North Urals camps. Died after 1941. Sosna in the camp, trying to escape. [2]

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