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Place of Birth: Kaunas, Kaunas County
About Vladas Česiūnas
- Vladislovas "Vladas" Cesiunas (born 15 March 1940 in Vyšnialaukiai, Jonava District Municipality) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s.
- He won one Olympic medal and six ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals during his career.
- He later became known for his role in "The Cesiunas Affair" when he defected from the 1979 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, West Germany (now Germany near Düsseldorf) only to return to the Soviet Union afterwards for his "misconduct".
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