Lithuania_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics Knowpia

Lithuania at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Lithuania at the; 2008 Summer Olympics
IOC code	LTU
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Lithuania
Website	www.ltok.lt (in Lithuanian and English)
in Beijing
Competitors	71 in 16 sports
Flag bearers	Šarūnas Jasikevičius (opening); Gintarė Volungevičiūtė (closing)
Medals; Ranked 56th	Gold 0 Silver 3 Bronze 2 Total 5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1924; 1928; 1932–1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Other related appearances
	Russian Empire (1908–1912); Soviet Union (1952–1988)

Lithuania competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.

Medalists edit

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Gintarė Volungevičiūtė	Sailing	Women's Laser Radial
Silver	Edvinas Krungolcas	Modern pentathlon	Men's event
Silver	Mindaugas Mizgaitis	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg
Bronze	Virgilijus Alekna	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Bronze	Andrejus Zadneprovskis	Modern pentathlon	Men's event

Athletics edit

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Vitalij Kozlov	800 m	1:48.96	6	Did not advance
Darius Škarnulis	50 km walk	—				DSQ
Donatas Škarnulis		—				DNF
Tadas Šuškevičius		—				4:02:45	32
Marius Žiūkas	20 km walk	—				1:25.36	35

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Virgilijus Alekna	Discus throw	65.84	2 Q	67.79

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Eglė Balčiūnaitė	800 m	2:00.15	4 q	—		2:02.59	7	Did not advance
Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Marathon	—						2:29.33	12
Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Marathon	—						2:35.09	37
Lina Grinčikaitė	100 m	11.43	3 Q	11.33	2 Q	11.50	6	Did not advance
Sonata Milušauskaitė	20 km walk	—						1:30:26	16
Kristina Saltanovič	20 km walk	—						1:31:03	19
Rasa Troup	3000 m steeplechase	9:30.21 NR	8	—				Did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Zinaida Sendriūtė	Discus throw	54.81	33	Did not advance
Inga Stasiulionytė	Javelin throw	55.66	32	Did not advance
Karina Vnukova	High jump	1.85	23	Did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final
Austra Skujytė	Result	14.46	1.77	17.02	25.40	NM	DNS	—	DNF
Austra Skujytė	Points	914	941	997	850	0	0	—	DNF
Viktorija Žemaitytė	Result	14.44	1.74	14.01	25.06	NM	DNS	—	DNF
Viktorija Žemaitytė	Points	917	903	795	881	0	0	—	DNF

Badminton edit

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Kęstutis Navickas	Men's singles	Abián (ESP) W 23–21, 12–21, 21–9	Pukhov (RUS) W 21–12, 21–17	Lee C W (MAS) L 5–21, 7–21	Did not advance
Akvilė Stapušaitytė	Women's singles	Bye	Rasmussen (DEN) L 6–21, 8–21	Did not advance

Basketball edit

Men's tournament edit

Lithuania's men's basketball team qualified for the Olympics by placing third at Eurobasket 2007. Because the reigning world champions (and automatic qualifiers), Spain, were second at that tournament, Lithuania joined Russia to fill out Europe's two continental qualification spots. The Lithuanian team will seek to get past the semifinal round for the first time since beginning to compete separately—in the four tournaments since then, Lithuania has taken three bronze medals and a fourth-place finish.

Roster

The following is the Lithuania roster in the men's basketball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Lithuania men's national basketball team – 2008 Summer Olympics roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Age – Date of birth	Height	Club
PG	4	Rimantas Kaukėnas	31 – (1977-04-11)April 11, 1977	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)	Montepaschi Siena
SG	5	Mindaugas Lukauskis	29 – (1979-05-19)May 19, 1979	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	Lietuvos Rytas
SF	6	Jonas Mačiulis	23 – (1985-02-10)February 10, 1985	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)	BC Žalgiris
C	7	Darjuš Lavrinovič	28 – (1979-11-01)November 1, 1979	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)	UNICS Kazan
G/F	8	Ramūnas Šiškauskas (C)	29 – (1978-09-10)September 10, 1978	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)	CSKA Moscow
G	9	Marius Prekevičius	24 – (1984-05-22)May 22, 1984	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)	BC Šiauliai
G/F	10	Simas Jasaitis	26 – (1982-03-26)March 26, 1982	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)	Joventut Badalona
F	11	Linas Kleiza	23 – (1985-01-03)January 3, 1985	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)	Denver Nuggets
F/C	12	Kšyštof Lavrinovič	28 – (1979-11-01)November 1, 1979	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)	Montepaschi Siena
PG	13	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	32 – (1976-03-05)March 5, 1976	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)	Panathinaikos BC
F/C	14	Marijonas Petravičius	28 – (1979-10-24)October 24, 1979	6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)	Lietuvos Rytas
C	15	Robertas Javtokas	28 – (1980-03-20)March 20, 1980	6 ft 11 in (2.11 m)	Dynamo Moscow

Head coach

Ramūnas Butautas

Assistant coach(es)

Rimas Kurtinaitis
Robertas Kuncaitis
Virginijus Mikalauskas

Legend

(C) Team captain
Club – describes last
club before the tournament
Age – describes age
on August 9, 2008

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lithuania	5	4	1	425	400	+25	9^[a]	Quarterfinals
2	Argentina	5	4	1	425	361	+64	9^[a]
3	Croatia	5	3	2	399	380	+19	8^[b]
4	Australia	5	3	2	457	405	+52	8^[b]
5	Russia	5	1	4	387	406	−19	6
6	Iran	5	0	5	323	464	−141	5

Source: FIBA archive
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal average; 4) head-to-head number of points scored.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: Lithuania 1–0 Argentina
^ ^a ^b Head-to-head record: Croatia 1–0 Australia

10 August 2008
16:45

Report

Lithuania	79–75	Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 14–11, 20–19, 17–15, 28–30
Pts: Kleiza 13 Rebs: K. Lavrinovič 7 Asts: Jasikevičius 8		Pts: Ginobili 19 Rebs: Oberto 11 Asts: Oberto, Prigioni 3

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Nikolaos Zavlanos (GRE)

12 August 2008
09:00

Report

Iran	67–99	Lithuania
Scoring by quarter: 20–15, 14–31, 19–28, 14–25
Pts: Haddadi 21 Rebs: Sahakian 12 Asts: Amini 4		Pts: Kleiza 22 Rebs: Kleiza 8 Asts: Jasikevičius, Lukauskis, Mačiulis 3

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Eddie Rush (USA)

14 August 2008
16:45

Report

Lithuania	86–79	Russia
Scoring by quarter: 23–24, 21–17, 25–21, 17–17
Pts: Kaukėnas 20 Rebs: Kleiza 11 Asts: Jasikevičius 5		Pts: Holden 25 Rebs: Khriapa 9 Asts: Kirilenko 6

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Nikolaos Pitsilkas (GRE)

16 August 2008
14:30

Report

Croatia	73–86	Lithuania
Scoring by quarter: 15–13, 30–29, 17–16, 11–28
Pts: Ukić 13 Rebs: Banić 7 Asts: Kus 3		Pts: Lukauskis 20 Rebs: K. Lavrinovič 7 Asts: Jasikevičius 6

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Nikolaos Zavlanos (GRE)

18 August 2008
11:15

Report

Australia	106–75	Lithuania
Scoring by quarter: 28–14, 27–15, 20–22, 31–24
Pts: Bogut 23 Rebs: Mills 4 Asts: Anstey 4		Pts: K. Lavrinovič 14 Rebs: K. Lavrinovič 8 Asts: Jasikevičius 5

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Nikolaos Pitsilkas (GRE)

Quarterfinals

20 August 2008
16:45

Report

Lithuania	94–68	China
Scoring by quarter: 19–17, 22–13, 29–23, 24–15
Scoring by half: 41–30, 53–38
Pts: Jasikevičius 23 Rebs: Kleiza 7 Asts: Jasikevičius 6		Pts: Yao 19 Rebs: Yi 9 Asts: Yao 3

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Nikolaos Pitsilkas (GRE)

Semifinals

22 August 2008
20:00

Report

Spain	91–86	Lithuania
Scoring by quarter: 21–19, 19–23, 22–24, 29–20
Scoring by half: 40–42, 51–44
Pts: P Gasol 19 Rebs: Jiménez 7 Asts: Rubio 4		Pts: Jasaitis, Jasikevičius 19 Rebs: Jasaitis 8 Asts: Jasikevičius 6

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Nikolaos Pitsilkas (GRE)

Bronze medal game

24 August 2008
12:00

Report

Lithuania	75–87	Argentina
Scoring by quarter: 21–24, 13–22, 15–22, 26–19
Scoring by half: 34–46, 41–41
Pts: Šiškauskas 15 Rebs: Šiškauskas, K. Lavrinovič 6 Asts: Jasikevičius 3		Pts: Delfino 20 Rebs: Delfino 10 Asts: Prigioni 7

Wukesong Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Attendance: 11,083
Referees: Eddie Rush (USA)

Boxing edit

Lithuania qualified three boxers for the Olympic boxing tournament. Semiotas qualified at the 2007 World Championships.^[2] Kavaliauskas and Jakšto both earned spots at the second European tournament.^[3]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Egidijus Kavaliauskas	Light welterweight	Vastine (FRA) L 2–13	Did not advance
Daugirdas Semiotas	Light heavyweight	Shynaliyev (KAZ) L 3–11	Did not advance
Jaroslavas Jakšto	Super heavyweight	—	Ohwarieme (NGR) W 11–1	Price (GBR) L RSC	Did not advance

Canoeing edit

Sprint edit

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tomas Gadeikis Raimundas Labuckas	Men's C-2 500 m	1:42.803	4 QS	1:43.299	4	Did not advance
Egidijus Balčiūnas Alvydas Duonėla	Men's K-2 500 m	1:31.232	5 QS	1:32.887	5	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final

Cycling edit

Road edit

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Dainius Kairelis	Men's road race	6:39:42	74
Ignatas Konovalovas	Men's road race	6:26:17	29
Edita Pučinskaitė	Women's road race	3:32:45	9
Edita Pučinskaitė	Women's time trial	38:55.37	23
Jolanta Polikevičiūtė	Women's road race	3:32:45	12
Modesta Vžesniauskaitė	Women's road race	3:33:17	27

Track edit

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Simona Krupeckaitė	Women's sprint	11.222 64.159	5	Reed (USA) L	Grankovskaya (RUS) Hijgenaar (NED) W 12.123 59.391	Pendleton (GBR) L, L	Did not advance	5th-8th place Sanchez (FRA) Tsylinskaya (BLR) Reed (USA) L	8

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank	Opponent Results	Rank
Svetlana Pauliukaitė	Women's individual pursuit	3:45.691	12	Did not advance
Vilija Sereikaitė	Women's individual pursuit	3:36.063	6 Q	Kalytovska (UKR) 3:36.808	6	Did not advance

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Svetlana Pauliukaitė	Women's points race	2	0	12

Gymnastics edit

Artistic edit

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank	F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank
Jelena Zanevskaya	All-around	13.350	13.875	13.350	13.375	53.950	54	Did not advance

Judo edit

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Albert Techov	Men's −60 kg	Bye	Guédez (VEN) L 0000–1000	Did not advance

Modern pentathlon edit

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	MP Points	Results	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points	Total points	Final rank
Edvinas Krungolcas	Men's	185	7	1156	21–14	5	904	2:07.63	23	1272	56	4	1144	9:42.65	25	1072	5548
Andrejus Zadneprovskis	Men's	182	17	1120	15–20	24	760	2:02.27	5	1336	28	2	1168	9:25.00	13	1140	5524
Laura Asadauskaitė	Women's	175	25	1036	12–23	=31	688	2:21.76	22	1220	0	2	1200	10:18.95	4	1248	5392	15
Donata Rimšaitė	Women's	175	24	1036	17–18	=18	808	2:20.57	21	1236	112	22	1088	10:13.76	3	1268	5436	13

Rowing edit

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mindaugas Griškonis	Single sculls	7:28.05	2 QF	6:54.47	2 SA/B	7:20.32	6 FB	7:09.323	8

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing edit

Women

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net points	Final rank
Gintarė Volungevičiūtė	Laser Radial	3	13	8	1	1	4	21	6	4	CAN	2	42

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled;

Shooting edit

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Daina Gudzinevičiūtė	Trap	69	5 Q	86	5

Swimming edit

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Saulius Binevičius	200 m freestyle	1:51.80	47	Did not advance
Edvinas Dautartas	200 m breaststroke	2:13.11	31	Did not advance
Rolandas Gimbutis	50 m freestyle	24.36	58	Did not advance
Vytautas Janušaitis	100 m backstroke	55.65	32	Did not advance
Vytautas Janušaitis	200 m individual medley	1:59.63	11 Q	2:00.76	15	Did not advance
Rimvydas Šalčius	100 m butterfly	52.90	34	Did not advance
Giedrius Titenis	100 m breaststroke	1:00.11	6 Q	1:00.66	12	Did not advance
Paulius Viktoravičius	100 m freestyle	49.27	28	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Raminta Dvariškytė	200 m breaststroke	2:33.32	35	Did not advance
Rugilė Mileišytė	50 m freestyle	26.19	39	Did not advance

Table tennis edit

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rūta Paškauskienė	Women's singles	Nonaka (BRA) W 4–0	Kim M-Y (PRK) W 4–3	Tóth (HUN) L 3–4	Did not advance

Weightlifting edit

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Ramūnas Vyšniauskas	Men's −105 kg	180	10	~~220~~	DNF	180	DNF

Wrestling edit

Key:

VT - Victory by Fall.
PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Aleksandr Kazakevič	−66 kg	Siamionau (BLR) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance						15
Valdemaras Venckaitis	−74 kg	Bye	Barrera (PER) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance					14
Mindaugas Ežerskis	−96 kg	Rezaei (IRI) W 3–1 ^PP	Khushtov (RUS) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance		Bye	Mambetov (KAZ) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	7
Mindaugas Mizgaitis	−120 kg	Bye	Kayaalp (TUR) W 3–1 ^PP	Baroev (RUS) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	Bye	Hashemzadeh (IRI) W 3–1 ^PP	Szczepaniak (FRA) W 3–1 ^PP

Mindaugas Mizgaitis originally finished third, but in November 2016, he was promoted to second place due to disqualification of Khasan Baroyev.

References edit

^ "2008 Olympic Basketball Men (FIBA) – Lithuania roster". FIBA. Archived from the original on June 22, 2008. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
^ World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007 Archived 2008-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ 2nd AIBA European Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine