Juozas Jagelavičius

Juozas Jagelavičius

Zigmas Jukna, Antanas Bagdonavicius, Volodymyr Sterlyk and Juozas Jagelavicius – winners of the 1965 European Championships in the coxless fours
Personal information
Born	12 January 1939 Džiuginėnai, Lithuania
Died	17 June 2000 (aged 61) Vilnius, Lithuania
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	Žalgiris Vilnius
Medal record Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City Eights World Rowing Championships 1962 Lucerne Eights 1966 Bled Coxless fours European Rowing Championships 1965 Duisburg Coxless fours 1967 Vichy Coxed fours 1963 Copenhagen Eights 1964 Amsterdam Eights 1969 Klagenfurt Eights

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 coxed eights 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 Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences and starting from 1972 worked as a rowing coach. His wife Genovaitė Strigaitė was also an international rower.