Vaidas Mizeras (born August 9, 1973) is a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

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who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). At the

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, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-2 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Four years later in

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, Mizeras was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 1000 m event.

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1973 births Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Living people Lithuanian male canoeists Olympic canoeists of Lithuania {{Lithuania-canoe-bio-stub