Kęstutis Bulota (23 October 1896 – 1941) was a Lithuanian multi-sport athlete who participated in the

1928 Winter Olympics The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (french: IIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; german: II. Olympische Winterspiele; it, II Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. M ...

in speed skating. In 1922 and 1923 he played for the

LFLS Kaunas LFLS Kaunas, or Lietuvos Fizinio Lavinimosi Sąjunga Kaunas, was a Lithuanian football club based in Kaunas in the years between World War I and World War II during Lithuania's first period of modern independence. The club was founded in 1919 an ...

football club. He was the Lithuanian champion in multiple sports, including holding national records in racewalking, the triple jump, and relay sprinting. In 1928, Bulota become Lithuania's first winter Olympian. His best result was fifth place in the 10,000 metres race, which was ultimately abandoned due to thawing ice. On 14 June 1941, Bulota was deported to Siberia by Soviet authorities. He died there, while trying to escape from one of the Gulag labour camps when he was shot by security officers.

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Bulota profile in LSE
* * 1896 births 1941 deaths Lithuanian footballers Lithuanian ice hockey players Lithuanian male racewalkers Lithuanian male speed skaters Lithuanian male triple jumpers Olympic speed skaters of Lithuania Speed skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics Association footballers not categorized by position People who died in the Gulag Lithuanian people executed by the Soviet Union People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm {{Lithuania-speed-skating-bio-stub