Gintaras Krapikas (born 6 July 1961) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player. He was a member of the Lithuania national team that won a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics. He recently served as an assistant coach of à ½algiris Kaunas.
During the 1980s, while playing for à ½algiris, Krapikas' jersey number was 9, and his position was small forward.
In 2000, Krapikas took a position as assistant basketball coach for à ½algiris Kaunas; together with the head coach, Antanas Sireika, he stepped down from this position in 2006, when the coaching team was re-organized. From 2002 to 2005, he was an assistant coach for the Lithuanian national team. From 2006 until 2008, he was an assistant basketball coach for UNICS Kazan.
In 2008, he was the head coach of à ½algiris Kaunas, to very little success, and on December 18, 2009, he resigned from à ½algiris Kaunas' head coach post. He also coached NevÃÂà ¾is for a short time in the 2010-2011 season, and was the assistant and head coach for Azovmash in 2011-2012. He returned to UNICS Kazan in 2012. Before the 2013-2014 season, he came back to à ½algiris Kaunas as an assistant coach. He became head coach in April. This time, he was much more success - under Krapikas, à ½algiris played great defence - and had a solid season in the Euroleague in 2014-2015, making the Top16 phase. à ½algiris also won the LKF Cup in 2015, as well as the 2014 and 2015 LKL titles. The team dominated in matches with biggest rival BC Lietuvos rytas. By the 2015-2016 season, however, the magic had worn off - the results were poor, especially in the Euroleague, and Krapikas resigned under much pressure in January, 2016. He was replaced by à  arà «nas JasikeviÃÂius.
In 2018, Krapikas signed with the Nanjing Monkey Kings of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). For the 2019âÂÂ20 season, he became an assistant coach for the team. In 2020, he moved to Guangdong Southern Tigers, with whom he won a CBA title in the 2020âÂÂ21 season. On 11 April 2022, Krapikas returned to à ½algiris Kaunas as an assistant coach under Kazys Maksvytis.
|- | align="left"|à ½algiris | align="left"|2008âÂÂ09 | 10 || 2 || 8 || || align="center"|Eliminated in group stage |- | align="left"|à ½algiris | align="left"|2009âÂÂ10 | 8 || 1 || 7 || || align="center"|Resigned |- | align="left"|à ½algiris | align="left"|2014âÂÂ15 | 24 || 10 || 14 || || align="center"|Eliminated in TOP-16 |- | align="left"|à ½algiris | align="left"|2015âÂÂ16 | 12 || 5 || 7 || || align="center"|Fired |-class="sortbottom" | align="center" colspan=2|Career||54||18||36||||
Gintaras Krapikas has an old nickname, which appeared during his tenure with Kaunas à ½algiris as a player. The nickname appeared due to his second name "Krapikas", which is a little bit similar to Lithuanian word "Krapai" (English: Dill) and at that time, there was a famous dill farmer, Vytas, from Petraà ¡ià «nai.