He won a gold medal with the Lithuania national basketball team during EuroBasket 1939.

[4] He was also interested in tennis, long jump, short-distance running and was a member of Kaunas Grandis athletic club.

[1] He was invited to join Lithuania national basketball team in 1938 which he participated in EuroBasket 1939.

[1] At the end of World War II he moved to Germany, where he played for Kempten Šarūnas, a basketball team of Lithuanian emigrants.

[1] In 2001, a book alleged that Vytautas Norkus and his brother Algirdas were complicit in the execution of Jews in Lithuania in 1941.