Sofija Korkutytė
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| Born | 22 July 1939 Mitriškės, Lithuania | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 May 2000 (aged 60) Vilnius, Lithuania | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sofija Korkutytė (22 July 1939 – 23 May 2000) was a Lithuanian rower who won three European titles in the eights event in 1963, 1965 and 1967; she finished second in 1964 and 1966. In 1966 Korkutytė graduated from the Economics Faculty of Vilnius University. From 1964 to 1981 she worked as a rowing coach and between 1981 and 1998 she was employed at the Lithuanian Ministry of Land Reclamation and Water Management. In parallel she also acted as a rowing judge.