Ramūnas Butautas

Ramūnas Butautas (born 22 May 1964 in Kaunas) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach who last coached Lietkabelis Panevėžys of the Lithuanian Basketball League. He is the son of Stepas Butautas. In 2017, Butautas was elected as the head coach for Lebanon national basketball team.

Ramūnas Butautas
Free Agent
PositionHead coach
Personal information
Born (1964-05-22) May 22, 1964
Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityLithuanian
Coaching career2003–present
Career history
As coach:
2003–2005Šiauliai
2005–2008ASK Riga
2007–2009Lithuania
2009Donetsk
2009–2010Žalgiris Kaunas
2010–2014VEF Rīga
2015–2016Astana
2017–2018Lietkabelis Panevėžys
Medals
Men's Basketball
Representing  Lithuania
FIBA European Championship
2007 Spain National Team
FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
2004 Czech Republic National Team

Career

On December 28, 2006 the executive committee of Basketball Federation of Lithuania unanimously decided that Butautas would become the head coach of the Lithuanian national men's basketball team. On December 2009, he was appointed as the head coach of Žalgiris Kaunas.[1] On February 9, 2010 Butautas was released from Žalgiris.[2] On March 16, 2011 Butautas was appointed head coach of VEF Rīga.[3] In June 2013 he signed a three-year extension with VEF Rīga, but following a disappointing season was relieved of his duties in June 2014. He also coached Astana, winning the national championship in 2015. He left the team after a disappointing season in 2016. On December 29, 2017, he became the head coach of Lietkabelis Panevėžys of the Lithuanian Basketball League.[4]

National level
  • 2003: Lithuania U-19 second coach
  • 2004: Lithuania U-20 head coach
  • 2005: Lithuania U-21 head coach
  • 2007–2009: Lithuania national basketball team head coach
  • 2017-: Lithuania U-20 head coach
  • 2017-: Lebanon national basketball team head coach [5]

Achievements
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gollark: Ranked ones are subject to Arrow's impossibility theorem, which causes weirdness.
gollark: Approval voting is cool and good™ and pretty simple, so is score voting.
gollark: The electoral college also somewhat encourages first past the post-type stuff, which is just an awful voting system.
gollark: I'm already most of the way there, clearly.

References
  1. 2009-12-24 R.Butautas oficialiai tapo Kauno „Žalgirio“ vyr. treneriu Archived 2009-12-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Lithuanian)
  2. (in Lithuanian)
  3. (in Lithuanian)
  4. "Komandos vairą perima R.Butautas". www.kklietkabelis.lt (in Lithuanian). December 29, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  5. http://www.sportando.com/m/en/national-teams/national-teams/236181/ramunas-butautas-is-the-new-head-coach-of-lebanon-national-team.html
  • Lithuanian Basketball League (in Lithuanian)
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