Mindaugas Griškonis is a former Lithuanian rower born in 1986 who raced in the single sculls and later the double sculls. Between 2007 and 2015 he won six medals at the European and world championships, three of them European golds. He finished eighth at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and then won his first Olympic medal at Rio in 2016, a silver in the double sculls with Saulius Ritter. After the 2024 Summer Olympics he retired, and he is president of the Lithuanian Rowing Federation, elected in 2021 and reelected in 2025, and General Secretary of the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee.
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he won six medals at the European and world championships
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he won six medals at the European and world championships between 2007 and 2015
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