Voldemaras Novickis (22 February 1956 – 31 January 2022) was a Lithuanian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player who competed in the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

and in the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

. In 1980, he won the silver medal with the Soviet team. He played all six matches and scored nine goals. Eight years later, he won the gold medal with the Soviet team. He played five matches including the final. In 1987 he won

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previ ...

with Granitas Kaunas. One year later in 1988, Granitas Kaunas managed to get into the

final one more time, however they lost by a very narrow margin. From 1993 he became head coach of Granitas Kaunas and managed until 2019 with numerous titles won. He died from cancer in

Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...

on 31 January 2022, at the age of 65.

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* 1956 births 2022 deaths Soviet male handball players Lithuanian male handball players Lithuanian people of Polish descent Handball players at the 1980 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics People from Alytus District Municipality Deaths from cancer in Lithuania {{USSR-Olympic-medalist-stub