Juozas Jagelavičius

Juozas Jagelavičius
Zigmas Jukna, Antanas Bagdonavicius, Volodymyr Sterlik and Juozas Jagelavicius – winners of the 1965 European Championships in the coxless fours
Personal information
Born(1939-01-12)12 January 1939
Džiuginėnai, Lithuania
Died17 June 2000(2000-06-17) (aged 61)
Vilnius, Lithuania
Alma materVilnius Pedagogical Institute
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
SportRowing
ClubŽalgiris Vilnius
Medal record
Olympic Games
1968 Mexico CityEight
World Rowing Championships
1962 LucerneEight
1966 BledCoxless four
European Rowing Championships
1965 DuisburgCoxless four
1967 VichyCoxed four
1963 CopenhagenEight
1964 AmsterdamEight
1969 KlagenfurtEight

Juozas Aleksandras Jagelavičius (12 January 1939 – 17 June 2000) was a Lithuanian rower. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics in the eight and finished in fifth and third place, respectively. Between 1963 and 1969 he won two gold and five silver medals at European and world championships. In 1965 Jagelavičius graduated from the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute and starting from 1972 worked as a rowing coach. His wife Genovaitė Strigaitė was also an international rower.