Tuesday in Choju (Poland) the European Athletics Team Championship began, which this year is also part of the European Games. Competing in the second league with 15 other countries, the Lithuanian team ranks eighth in the standings after the first day (12 races out of 37 won today - Auth. past).
After a 10-month break, she returned to international competitions Modesta Justė Morauskaitė In the 400 m sprint, he recorded the best result of the Lithuanian season (51,61 sec.) and took second place. "I am very happy with my first 400m start of the season. I really have the best memories in this stadium, because last year I participated in the gold tour competition here and experienced the charm and pleasure of the running track," said Modesta after the competition.
The athlete who won 15 points for the team did not hide that it was difficult to return, because she had to prepare for this summer season in a very short time. "I didn't expect any gold result today and I wanted to enjoy the competition and run as I was preparing," said the athlete.
After the finish, the sprinter thanked the coach from Spain separately To Rafael Blanquer Alcantuda: "A big thank you to the coach who was able to get me back on the track and in my best shape." The Romanian won the 400m event with a personal best Andrea Miklos (50,67 sec.).
The best Lithuanian discus thrower also won the second place Ieva Zarankaite. Although the latter was quite far from her usual results (57.71 m), the team won as many as 15 points out of 16 possible. "I don't even know what led to such a result, probably everything came together. The weather is quite hot, although the ice cubes helped to refresh, the closed stadium creates a greenhouse atmosphere", said I. Zarankaitė.
The athlete also singled out the large number of participants: "There was a lot of waiting, I felt a little sleepy and I couldn't wake up and sharpen up."
The discus player, who improved her result with every throw, did not hide that she did not expect that: "That's not what I came here for, however, I can be happy with the points earned for the team. In any case, I came here with higher goals.” The Dane won the discus Lisa Brix Pedersen (59.20 m).
The high fifth place in the shot put sector was recently won by JAV after returning Urtė Bačianskaitė (14.81 m). The Hungarian won the match Anita Marton (17.74 m). Having taken the seventh place in the 400 m run Tomas Keršulis recorded his best result in the stadium (46,36 seconds), and the Hungarian was the first Attila Molnar (45,30 sec.).
He won the eighth place and brought nine points to the team Simas Bertašius, who covered 800 m in 1 min. 49,55 sec. (the best result of the Lithuanian season). The Croatian won the match Marino Bloudek (1 min. 47,11 sec.). Sims will start tomorrow in his main event, the 1500m.
The ninth place was won today by recording the best result of the season in Lithuania Eva Misiūnaitė (100 m - 11,68 sec.) and hammer thrower Agnė Lukoševičiūtė (60.73 m). In the girls' event, the Netherlands won respectively Patrizia Van Der Weken (11,24 sec.) and Romanian Bianca Florentina Ghelber (72.97 m).
Even 3 representatives of Lithuania won eleventh places. In the triple jump Gust Griška jumped 14.92 m, and the Ukrainian won Vladyslav Shepeliev (16.67 m). 3000m steeplechase Giedrius Valinčius covered the distance in 9 minutes. 05,05 seconds, the Hungarian won Istvan Palkovitsas (8 min. 43,82 sec.). 19 year old Nicodemus Lauryns in the pole vault, he cleared a height of 4.70 m, and the Croatian shared the first place Ivan Horvat and Ukrainian Vladyslav Malykhin (5.40 m).
in the 5000 m run Lina Kiriliuk took twelfth place (17 min. 12,49 sec.) and earned five points for the team. The unopposed Latvian won the match Agate in Caune (15 min. 15,21 sec.). In the 100 m men's sprint, he finished thirteenth Kristupas Seikauskas, who covered the distance in 10,72 seconds. and the Slovak winner Jan Volko landed 0,48 sec. After the first day, Lithuania has 104 points and is just one behind Denmark. After today, Hungary is in the clear lead (159 points), and Luxembourg (59 points) is in the last, sixteenth place. Tomorrow the Lithuanians will start at 17:15.
