Lithuania National Thread

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As of 5 March 2016 Lithuania already had these athletes qualified for the Rio 2016:

 

Rowing

TBA1	Women's Single Sculls
TBA2	Women's Double Sculls
TBA3	Women's Double Sculls
TBA4	Men's Single Sculls
TBA5	Men's Double Sculls
TBA6	Men's Double Sculls
TBA7	Men's Quadruple Sculls
TBA8	Men's Quadruple Sculls
TBA9	Men's Quadruple Sculls
TBA10	Men's Quadruple Sculls

Canoeing

TBA1	Men's C1-200m
TBA2	Men's K1-200m
TBA3	Men's K2-1000m
TBA4	Men's K2-1000m

Sailing

TBA1	Women's Laser Radial
Juozas Bernotas	Men's RS:X Sailboard

Cycling

TBA1	Men's Road Race
TBA2	Men's Road Race
Simona Krupeckaitė	Women's Track - Keirin

Basketball

TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team
TBA	Men's Team

Modern Pentathlon

Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė

Women's Individual Race

Swimming

Rūta Meilutytė	Women's 100m Breastostroke
Danas Rapšys	Men's 200m Freestyle, 100m Backstroke, 200m Backstroke, 4x100m Medley
Giedrius Titenis	Men's 100m Breaststorke, 200m Breaststroke
TBA1	Men's 4x100m Medley
TBA2	Men's 4x100m Medley

Athletics

Eglė Balčiūnaitė	Women's 800m
Eglė Staišiūnaitė	Women's 400m Hurdles
Airinė Palšytė	Women's High Jump
Dovilė Dzindzaletaitė	Women's Triple Jump
Zinaida Sendriūtė	Women's Discus Throw
Diana Lobačevskė	Women's Marathon
Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Women's Marathon
TBA1	Women's Marathon
Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė	Women's 20km Racewalking
Neringa Aidietytė	Women's 20km Racewalking
Kristina Saltanovič	Women's 20km Racewalking
Andrius Gudžius	Men's Discus Throw
Remigijus Kančys	Men's Marathon
Valdas Dopolskas	Men's Marathon
Marius Žiūkas	Men's 20km Racewalking
Marius Šavelskis	Men's 20km Racewalking
Tadas Šuškevičius	Men's 50km Racewalking

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RIO 2016 UPDATE:

 

Athletics

WITHDRAW: Women's Triple Jump - Dovilė Dzindzaletaitė (pregnancy)

NEW STANDARD: Artur Miastianica in Men's 50km Race Walk

 

Cycling

NEW QUOTA: Simona Krupeckaitė in Women's Keirin and Sprint (2 Events)

 

Modern Pentathlon

Justinas Kinderis scored 38 Olympic ranking points and Ieva Serapinaitė scored 40 Olympic ranking points in 2nd Wolrd Cup. Both pentathletes are eligible to qualify for the Olympics right now.

 

Shooting

Ronaldas Račinskas (Men's Skeet) finished season with 12.17 national points against his rival Karolis Girulis (Men's Rifle) with 7.60 national points. According to the rules - national shooting federation will be applying for the quota under R.Račinskas name (for unused quotas from ISSF) although it still need to be confirmed in federation's meeting.

 

Swimming

Rūta Meilutytė recovered after broken arm and won her first championships since September with impressive world's season best (excluded Yefimova's result due doping use). R.Meilutytė confirmed that she will be entering only in 100m breaststroke event in Olympics and won't start in freestyle sprint and individual medley events.

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Complete funding for the sports federations in 2016 from all sources were announced. 72 sports was funded this year (some of the sports like squash do not get funding to low doping control standards).

 

1	Basketball
2	Cycling
3	Aquatics (Swimming, Synchronized and Diving)
4	Athletics
5	Rowing
6	Canoeing
7	Modern Pentathlon
8	Wrestling
9	Sailing
10	Boxing
11	Weightlifting
12	Judo
13	Handball
14	Biathlon
15	Volleyball
16	Football
17	Gymnastics
18	Air Sports
19	Shooting sports
20	Cross-country skiing
21	Dance Sports
22	Field Hockey
23	Ice Hockey
24	Rugby
25	Table Tennis
26	Short Track Speed Skating
27	Tennis
28	Figure Skating
29	Equestrian
30	Badminton
31	Orienteering
32	Kyokushin Karate
33	Sambo
34	Water Polo
35	Automotive Sports
36	Baseball
37	Powerboating
38	Golf
39	Curling
40	Chess
41	Triathlon
42	Fencing
43	Archery
44	(Paralympic) Blind sports
45	Gliding sports
46	Taekwondo
47	Draughts
48	Bodybuilding and FItness
49	Motorbike sports
50	Universal fight
51	Kickboxing
52	Angling
53	Kurash
54	Bobsleigh and Skeleton
55	Powerlifting
56	Corespondential Chess
57	Muay-Thai
58	Underwater sports
59	Tug of War
60	Billiard
61	Arm wrestling
62	Compositor Chess
63	Alpinism
64	Grapling
65	Paralympic sports
66	Water Skiing
67	Pool
68	Floorball
69	Ritinis
70	Kendo
71	Climbing
-	-

 

Notes:

Olympic sport

Paralympic sports

 

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Incomplete funding for the sports federations in 2017 only from KKSD sources were announced. 65 sports was funded this year, but number might increase after Olympic committee, Olympic centre and main KKSD fund announced their funding numbers this year.

 

Ranking so far (1/4): 

 

1	Basketball
2	Aquatics (Swimming, Synchronized and Diving)
3	Rowing
4	Air Sports
5	Athletics
6	Modern Pentathlon
7	Canoeing
8	Cycling
9	Handball
10	Gymnastics
11	Dance Sports
12	Wrestling
13	Weightlifting
14	Sailing
15	Boxing
16	Orienteering
17	Kyokushin Karate
18	Volleyball
19	Automotive Sports
20	Table Tennis
21	Powerboating
22	Shooting sports
23	Football
24	Ice Hockey
25	Biathlon
26	Rugby
27	Field Hockey
28	Judo
29	Baseball
30	Tennis
31	Draughts
32	Skiing sports
33	Chess
34	Bodybuilding and FItness
35	Motorbike sports
36	Universal fight
37	Sambo
38	Kickboxing
39	Badminton
40	Belt wrestling and pancration
41	Figure Skating
42	Angling
43	Curling
44	Fencing
45	Water Polo
46	Archery
47	Taekwondo
48	Short Track Speed Skating
49	Powerliftinig
50	Muay-Thai
51	Equestrian
52	Compositor Chess
53	Corespondential Chess
54	Arm wrestling
55	Triathlon
56	Wushu
57	Kurash
58	Pool
59	Water Skiing
60	Softball
61	Kendo
62	Bushido
63	Squash
64	Kudo
65	Golf
NF	Climbing
NF	Tug of War
NF	Floorball
NF	Grapling
NF	Underwater sports
NF	Billiard
NF	-Bobsleigh and Skeleton

 

Notes:

NF- No funding by high level achievement programme

Olympic sport

Paralympic sports

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World Lithuanian Games

 

Teams has been confirmed for multi-sport event that will be held this year in June in Kaunas, Lithuania. 3499 athletes from 29 countries set to compete.

 

Participating countries:

• Australia
• Belarus
•  Canada
• Cyprus
•  Czech Republic
•  Denmark
•  Ecuador
•  Estonia
•  Finland
•  France
•  Georgia
•  Germany
•  Ireland
•  Israel
• Italy
•  Latvia
•  Lithuania
• Netherlands
•  Norway
•  Poland
• Russia
•  Spain
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
• Turkey
•  Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• United States
•  Uruguay

 

Sports:

• Alpine skiing (Indoor slope in Druskininkai)
• Angling
• Archery
• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Chess
• Darts
• Football
• Golf
• Ice Hockey (demonstration)
• Orienteering
• Power-lifting
• Shooting
• Swimming
• Table tennis
• Tennis
• Tourism sport
• Volleyball

Edited March 4, 2017 by Bearas

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Kasparaitis back on stage

Plays first game for native country Lithuania

45-year-old Darius Kasparaitis is back on the international stage! After four seasons in the Lithuanian league he for the first time played for the national team of his native country in an exhibition game against Estonia.

 

 

Long-time NHL defenceman Darius Kasparaitis for the first time represented his native country Lithuania on Friday in an exhibition game against Estonia.

 

The game was a first step to make his dream come true to play for his country in an IIHF competition when Lithuania will host the 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B in Kaunas.

 

Kasparaitis is one of two Lithuanians who made it to the NHL. Both he and Dainius Zubrus hail from Elektrenai, a town halfway between Kaunas and the capital of Vilnius. But while Zubrus represented Lithuania in the lower divisions after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kasparaitis went another way.

 

When he was 14 he left Lithuania and followed the invitation to join Dynamo Moscow, one of the strongest teams in the Soviet Union. He played for the Soviet U18 and U20 national teams. In 1992 during the split up he stayed with the Russian system, won Olympic gold with the “Unified Team” formed by Russia and other former Soviet republics except the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the 1992 Winter and Summer Olympics. The same year he represented Russia in the World Championship as he did in 1996, at three more Olympic Winter Games (1998, 2002, 2006) and the 2004 World Cup of Hockey.

 

Now Kasparaitis is past his prime. He left the NHL in 2007 and played two more seasons for SKA St. Petersburg in the KHL before retiring as a professional player. But after four years without official hockey games he came back. In 2013 he made his formal transfer back to Lithuania and joined the Hockey Punks Vilnius. He has played four consecutive seasons in the top Lithuanian league and wants to apply for a change of nationality in IIHF competitions to represent his country in Kaunas when Lithuania will host Ukraine, Japan, Estonia, Croatia and Romania in April.

 

Playing at the Baltic Challenge Cup in the port town of Klaipeda this week is his first experience in the red-and-white jersey with the Lithuanian knight. And he had a good start with the probably strongest Lithuanian presence ever. Kasparaitis was first time on the ice as was goaltender Mantas Armalis, who became the third Lithuanian to be signed by an NHL team but played in the AHL last season, and Nerijus Alisauskas, the second Lithuanian after Kasparaitis to play in the KHL. (Armalis has in the meantime joined him at Dinamo Riga.) And then there was Dainius Zubrus, who recently retired from his long NHL career – not on the ice but at least on the tribune of the Svyturis Arena. But of course hockey fans in the Baltic country hope to see him on the ice again for a third World Championship Division I tournament after 2005 and 2014.

 

In the 7-2 win against Estonia, 45-year-old defenceman Kasparaitis helped set up two early goals scored by his 18-year-old linemate Markas Kaleinikovas to give Lithuania a 2-0 lead against their Baltic rivals. 17 seconds into the third period the new Lithuanian captain with the number 11 also had a marker on his own to give Lithuania a 6-0 lead. That made him arguably the oldest “national team rookie” to score in his first game for his team.

 

“I’m not here to score goals, I’m here to play defence,” he said about the goal and was happy about his debut in his native country. “I feel great. I haven’t played for a long time. First of all the team won. It is good for me to see where I am at and that I can still compete at this level and that if I’m at good health and have passion for the game I can still do it.”

 

The Baltic Challenge Cup will be played at three venues. The stage in Klaipeda beside Lithuania and Estonia includes a selection of the Latvian league and the Ukrainian national team.

 

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Lithuanian Sports awards announced nominees and opened the voting.

Everyone can vote here: https://plus.lrytas.lt/lteam-2019/

Nominees are :

• Sportsman of the year: Danas Rapšys (Swimming), Robert Tvorogal (Gymnastics), Mindaugas Griškonis (Rowing)
• Sportswoman of the year: Laura Asadauskaite-Zadneprovskienė (Modern Pentathlon), Simona Krupeckaitė (Track Cycling), Viktorija Andrulyte (Sailing)
• Men's Team of the year: Rowing 2x, Basketbal 3x3, Swimming 4x100 Medley
• Women's Team of the year: Track Team Sprint, Rowing 2x, Basketball U16
• Coachman of the year: Andrėjus Zadneprovskis (Modern pentathlon), Dmitrijus Leopoldas (Track Cycling), Jevgenijus Izmodenovas (Artistic Gymnastics)
• Coachwoman of the year: Ina Paipelienė (Swimming), Teresė Nekrošaitė (Athletics), Tatjana Krasauskienė (Athletics)
• Breakthrough of the year: Edis Matusevičius (Athletics), Diana Zagainova (Athletics), Justė Veronika Jocyte (Basketball)
• Most popular athlete: random category with a lot of nominees...