The best national swimmers and athletes from abroad started the 50 open competition on Wednesday in the 2023 m swimming pool of "Girstutis" in Kaunas. Lithuanian swimming championship.
50 ml in style, men
Lithuanian record: 21.70 – Simonas Bilis (2018) FINA A standard: 22.12 Olympic OQT standard: 21.96Wednesday's finals started with men's 50 m swimming. style match. The winner in the strongest A final was the selection leader Lebanese Simon Doueihy (23,42 seconds). Who will become the runner-up was decided in the last meters. Here we managed to reach the finish wall first Kirill Stepanov (23,84 sec.). The bronze went to the one who showed a similar time David Kazil (23,86 sec.).
The youngest participant in the final who came sixth (23,95 sec.). Tajus Juška 0,01 sec. improved the national record for under-15 boys recorded in the morning.
200 ml. in style, women
Lithuanian record: 2:00.11 – Rūta Meilutytė (2014) FINA A norm: 1:58.66 Olympic OQT norm: 1:57.26In the intriguing women's 200 m swimming l. style in the finals, they set a new record for girls under 17 years of age Smiltė Plytnykaitė. The pupil of the Capital Sports Center covered the distance in 2 minutes. 01,79 sec.
"I'm very happy because I've really been working on it. I am very satisfied that all that work has paid off", S. Plytnykaitė evaluated her performance, who had probably swum the distance in 2 minutes before this competition. 2,25 sec.
The previous peer record (2.01,86 min) was previously held by the runner-up Silvija Statkevičius (2.03,31 min.). Finished third Maria Romanovskaya (2.04,74 min.).
200m backstroke, men
Lithuanian record: 1:56.11 – Danas Rapšys (2017) FINA A norm: 1:58.07 Olympic OQT norm: 1:57.50He became the national champion in the men's 200 m backstroke event Erik Grigaitis. The Kaunas Swimming School athlete was the only one who swam faster than 2 minutes in the final. - covered the distance in 1 min. 59,82 sec. and successfully improved his personal record (1.59,92 min.).
He finished second Kajus Stankevičius (2.02,33 min.), came third Evalds Babakinas (2.05,23)
100 m backstroke, women
Lithuanian record: 1:01.60 – Ugnė Mažutaitytė (2021) FINA A norm: 1:00.59 Olympic OQT norm: 59.99In the women's 100 m backstroke event, a new national record for under-17 girls was recorded Patricija Geriksonaitė. The pupil of Šiauliai swimming center "Delfinas" covered the distance in 1 minute. 2,83 sec. and beat the best of peers by 0,03 seconds.
The previous record belonged to Rūta Meilutyte (1.02,86 min.).
He became the vice-champion of the country Auguste Jakštaitė (1.05,09 min.), and her sister won the bronze Beata Jakštaite (1.05,45)
200m breaststroke, men
Lithuanian record: 2:07.80 – Giedrius Titenis (2009) FINA A norm: 2:10.32 Olympic OQT norm: 2:09.68There was no match in the men's 200m breaststroke Andrii Šidlauskas. The pupil of Panevėžys "Žemynos" finished in 2 minutes. 11,83 sec. and confidently passed his teammate Adam Gatulis (2.20,58 min.) and Alan Gritsok (2.20,65 min.) from Estonia.
50 m butterfly, women
Lithuanian record: 27.14 – Rūta Meilutytė (2013) FINA A norm: 26.32Latvian swimmer Gabriela Nikitina won gold in the 50 m butterfly event (27,17 seconds), she surpassed in the final Kotryna Teterevkova (27,76 sec.) and Guoda Tručinskaitė (28,22 sec.). Both Lithuanians successfully improved their career records.
1500 ml in style, men
Lithuanian record: 15:52.12 - Oleg Cvetkovas (1984)
FINA A standard: 15:04.64 Olympic OQT standard: 15:00.99In the strongest men's 1500 m l. in swimming style, a new national record was recorded for men Dziugas Miškinis. The pupil of the Kaunas Swimming School covered the distance at a record pace in 15 minutes. 51,10 sec. The previous national record has stood even since 1984, when Oleg Tsvetkov showed 15 minutes at the competition in Kyiv. 52,12 min. the result.
"Now there are a lot of all kinds of emotions inside. I'm very happy, it's even difficult to think soberly, to think about where the mistakes are and the like, but it will still be necessary to return home, to analyze, and until then I'd like to enjoy this record now", said Dz. Woodman.
He only recently returned from a training camp in the mountains of Sierra Nevada, where he trained for the competition together with Danas Rapšius, Andrius Šidlauskas, Kotryna Teterevkova and Rūta Meilutyte.
"The camp was both hard and fun. Still, swimming with Dan and other members of the Lithuanian national team was a very good experience and a lot of fun. I am satisfied with everything", - the record holder evaluated the work in the training camp.
Second place in the 1500m. won the match in style Kostas Vaičiūnas (16.27,53 min.), was third Titas Vaitukaitis (16.50,50 min.).
1500 ml. in style, women
Lithuanian record: 17:27.11 – Silvija Statkevičius (2022) FINA A norm: 16:29.57 Olympic OQT norm: 16:09.091500 BC became the women's champion in the style event Ugnė Šiautkulytė. The pupil of Šiauliai swimming center "Delfinas" covered the distance in 18 minutes. 8,96 sec.
He won the silver medal Virginija Volodkaitė (18.37,33 min.), and took the third place Kamilė Ilijonskytė (18.39,36 min.).
She finished in fourth place with a new national record for girls under 13 years of age Augustina Ambrulaitytė (19.09,85, 19.42,63 min.) from the Capital Sports Center. The previous achievement of her peers belonged to Viktorija Artiomova (XNUMX min.).
4 x 100 m combined medley relay
Lithuanian record: 3:51.85 - Gytis Stankevičius, Kotryna Teterevkova, Deividas Margevičius, Rūta Meilutytė (2018)The final swimming of the first day was completed by 4 100m combined mixed relay, in which Panevėžys "Žemynos" team won the gold. Beata Jakštaite, Andrius Šidlauskas, Kristupas Trepočka ir Amelia Murėnaite recorded 3 min. 57,91 sec. result and surpassed both teams of the Kaunas Swimming School.
Video of the final swims
The morning of the first day of the competition was marked by a new Lithuanian age group record. He recorded it in the men's 50 m freestyle swimming qualification Tajus Juška from Kaunas sports school "Startas". The young athlete covered the distance in the morning qualification in 23,96 seconds. and improved Mantas Kavecks' achievement of the country's under-2015 boys since 15 (24,06 seconds).
Prior to this competition, his personal best in this event was 24,14 seconds.
T. Juška's time was third in the overall line-up of 113 participants. Only David Kazil (23,69 seconds) and Simon Doueihy (23,46 seconds) from Lebanon swam faster in the morning.
In addition to Lithuanians and Lebanese, athletes from Latvia and Estonia also participate in the championship.
Olympians, European Championship prize winners Andrius Šidlauskas and Kotryna Teterevkova also successfully passed the morning selections.
A. Šidlauskas was the first (2.20,20 min.) in the men's 200 m breaststroke qualification, and K. Teterevkova was second (50 sec.) in the non-main women's 28,25 m butterfly event, losing only to the Latvian Gabriela Nikitina (27,54 sec.).
Rūta Meilutytė was also registered to swim in the last competition, but she did not start.
With the best results, Silvija Statkevičius, who recently returned from Canada to Lithuania (200 m breaststroke - 2.04,19 min.), Kajus Stankevičius (200 m backstroke - 2.02,56 min.) and Beata Jakštaitė (100 m. back – 1.05,55 min.).
Tomorrow (Thursday) the qualifying swims will start at 10:17 and the finals will start at XNUMX:XNUMX.
The Lithuanian Swimming Federation reminds that the participants of the competition can not only fulfill the qualification norms for the World Aquatics World Swimming Championship, which will be held on July 23-30 in Fukuoka, Japan, but also for the Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in Paris next year.
After the Lithuanian championship, it should also become clear who will represent Lithuania at the European Youth Swimming Championship, the European Youth Olympic Festival and the first-ever European U23 Swimming Championship.
Video of the eastern part
The championship is organized by the Lithuanian Swimming Federation, the partner of the competition is the "Girstučio" swimming pool.
The competition will end on Saturday.
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