The Lithuanian swimming championship ended, Smiltė Plytnykaitė improved the national women's record

The Open Lithuanian Swimming Championship ended at the "Girstučio" swimming pool in Kaunas. On Saturday, the participants of the competition distributed the last sets of medals, and after summing up the results of all four days, the best swimmers of the championship were revealed.

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100 ml. in style, women

Lithuanian record: 54.94 – Rūta Meilutytė (2013)
FINA A standard: 54.25 Olympic OQT standard: 53.61

Lithuanian champion in women's 100 m swimming. became a 16-year-old in the style event Smiltė Plytnykaitė broke the national women's record.

The pupil of the Capital Sports Center covered the distance in 54,74 seconds. and 0,20 sec. surpassed Rūta Meilutyte's achievement (54,94 seconds).

"I couldn't believe it, there was no idea. I thought that I could really do it, but I did not expect that I would be able to achieve a record during this competition. I am very happy that all that work paid off", S. Plytnykaitė shared her emotions after the finish.

The second finished Silvija Statkevičius (56,86 sec.), came third Patricija Kondraškaitė (57,07 sec.).

400 ml in style, men

Lithuanian record: 3:43.36 – Danas Rapšys (2019) FINA A norm: 3:48.15 Olympic OQT norm: 3:46.78

Men's 400 m swimming l. style A was won by a Klaipėda player in the final Daniel Kveder (4.00,07 min.), passing Kosta Vaičiūnas (4:03.17 min.) and the Lebanese Simon Doueihy (4.03,21 min.).

200 m butterfly, women

Lithuanian record: 2:18.29 - Beatričė Kanapienytė (2016) FINA A norm: 2:09.21 Olympic OQT norm: 2:08.43

She became the national champion in the women's 200 m butterfly event Liepa Veronika Borevičiūtė. The young swimmer of the Capital Sports Center finished in 2 minutes. 28,23 seconds, bettering the career record (2.30,03 minutes) and ahead of the silver winner Radvilė Kerševičiūtė (2.28,82 min.). The third came Saulė Janutėnaitė (2.40,55 min.).

Men's 100m butterfly

Lithuanian record: 52.55 – Deividas Margevičius (2019) FINA A standard: 51.96 Olympic OQT standard: 51.67

In the men's 100m butterfly qualification, he performed well Tajus Juška. The Kaunian recorded 56,32 seconds in the selection. result, surpassed his own national record for under-15 boys (56,69 seconds) and entered the A final in eighth place.

In the final, T. Juška was even faster - he covered the distance in seventh place (56,01 seconds), and the winner was the Panevezys, who improved his personal record Andrius Šidlauskas (53,34 sec.), surpassed Edwin Cesnak (55,01 sec.) and Emil Atkočiūnas (55,28 sec.).

In this championship, T. Juška even improved the achievements of his peers under 15 seven times.

100 m breaststroke, women

Lithuanian record: 1:04.35 – Rūta Meilutytė (2013) FINA A norm: 1:07.35 Olympic OQT norm: 1:06.79

The women's 100m breaststroke A final is over Kotryna Teterevkova victory. The woman from Vilnius finished in 1 minute. 7,53 seconds The silver went to the Estonian Maria Romanjuk (1:08.68 min.), and she won the bronze Agnė Šeleikaitė (1.10,93 min.).

50m breaststroke, men

Lithuanian record: 27.20 – Giedrius Titenis (2015) FINA A norm: 27.33

There was no match in the men's 50m breaststroke A final Andrii Šidlauskas (27,56 sec.). He overtook Estonian Alan Gritsok (29,34 seconds) and Luberski in the morning (29,49 sec.).

200 m compl. way, women

Lithuanian record: 2:12.32 – Rūta Meilutytė (2013) FINA A norm: 2:12.98 Olympic OQT norm: 2:11.47

The individual performances of the athletes at the championship were completed by the 200 m individual medley event. In the women's A final, Estonian swimmer Maria Romanjuk became the champion (2.19,39 minutes), and she won the title of runner-up Guoda Tručinskaitė (2.23,35 min.). Won bronze Ieva Nainytė (2.25,13 min.).

200 m compl. way men

Lithuanian record: 1:59.14 – Danas Rapšys (2019) FINA A norm: 1:59.53 Olympic OQT norm: 1:57.94

Latvian Kristaps Mikelsons won in the analogous men's final (2.03,89 min). He overtook the resident of Panevezys Adam Gatulis (2.07,03 min.) and Ahmad Safiye (2.10,16 min.) from Lebanon.

4 x 200 ml. in style, women

Lithuanian record: 8:19.38 – Silvija Statkevičius, Marija Romanovskaja, Patricija Geriksonaitė, Smiltė Plytnykaitė (2022)

In the women's relay, 4 each 200 m. gathered in a joint youth team in style and did not compete for prize places Silvija Statkevičius, Maria Romanovskaya, Smiltė Plytnykaitė ir Stella Švenčionytė set a new Lithuanian record. The young swimmers finished in 8 minutes. 17,51 ​​sec. The previous Lithuanian record was 8 minutes. 19,38 sec.

Athletes from the Kaunas Swimming School became national champions Ieva Visockaitė, Ieva Nainytė, Rusne Vasiliauskaitė ir Ugnė Pečiulytė. She completed the relay in 8 minutes. 45,51 sec.

4 x 200 ml. in style, men

Lithuanian record: 7:21.04 – Danas Rapšys, Daniil Pancerevas, Tomas Sungaila, Tomas Navikonis (2022)

In the men's relay, "Žemynieciė" finished victoriously. Kristupas Trepočka, Rokas Jazdauskas, Kostas Vaičiūnas ir Matt Chinga showed 7 min. 36,72 sec. result, and taking the seventh place Žygymantas Tautvydas, Ignas Norkevičius, Emil Panumis ir Martynas Bernotas from the Kaunas Swimming School broke the national record for boys under 15 years of age. From now on, it is 8 minutes. 22,59 sec.

The best swimmer of the championship (according to the sum of the FINA rating of three Olympic events) became the one who won four gold medals in the championship Andrius Šidlauskas, scoring 2522 points. Won the second place Catherine Teterevkova (2446 points), just 3 points ahead Smiltė Plytnykaitė. Also entered the top four Erik Grigaitis (2402 points).

THE BEST SWIMMERS OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP

1. Andrius ŠIDLAUSKAS (Panevėžys "Žemyna") - 2522 points.
2. Kotryna TETEREVKOVA (Sostinės SC) – 2446 points.
3. Smiltė PLYTNYKAITĖ (Sostinės SC) – 2443 points.
4. Erikas GRIGAITIS (Kaunas PM) – 2402 points.
5. Maria ROMANJUK (Spordiklubi Garant) – 2354 points.
6. Simon DOUEIHY (Lebanon) - 2320 points.

Video of morning swims

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.

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