Lithuania at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Lithuania competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Lithuania at the
2000 Summer Olympics
IOC codeLTU
NOCNational Olympic Committee of Lithuania
Websitewww.ltok.lt (in Lithuanian and English)
in Sydney
Competitors61 in 15 sports
Flag bearer Romas Ubartas
Medals
Ranked 33rdth
Gold
2
Silver
0
Bronze
3
Total
5
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Russian Empire (1900–1912)
 Soviet Union (1952–1988)

Medalists

Lithuania finished in 33rd position in the final medal rankings, with two gold medals and three bronze medals.

Medal Name Sport Event
 GoldVirgilijus AleknaAthleticsMen's Discus Throw
 GoldDaina GudzinevičiūtėShootingWomen's Trap Shooting
 BronzeSaulius Štombergas
Mindaugas Timinskas
Eurelijus Žukauskas
Darius Maskoliūnas
Ramūnas Šiškauskas
Darius Songaila
Šarūnas Jasikevičius
Kęstutis Marčiulionis
Tomas Masiulis
Dainius Adomaitis
Gintaras Einikis
Andrius Giedraitis		BasketballMen's Team Competition
 BronzeDiana ŽiliūtėCyclingWomen's Individual Road Race
 BronzeKristina Poplavskaja
Birutė Šakickienė		RowingWomen's Double Sculls

Athletics
Main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Men
Track & road events
Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Jonas Motiejūnas 400 m DNF Did not advance
Daugvinas Zujus 50 km walk N/A 4:06:04 30
Field events
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Distance Position Distance Position
Virgilijus Alekna Discus throw 67.10 3 Q 69.30
Tomas Bardauskas Long jump 7.70 27 Did not advance
Arūnas Jurkšas Javelin throw 73.05 29 Did not advance
Vaclavas Kidykas Discus throw 58.96 30 Did not advance
Saulius Kleiza Shot put 18.59 28 Did not advance
Romas Ubartas Discus throw 60.50 27 Did not advance
Women
Track & road events
Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Inga Juodeškienė 5000 m 15:46.37 29 Did not advance
Irina Krakoviak 1500 m 04:10.21 6 Q N/A 04:14.57 11 Did not advance
Sonata Milušauskaitė 20 km walk N/A 1:37:14 31
Žana Minina 400 m 52.38 3 Q 52.53 6 Did not advance
Kristina Saltanovič 20 km walk N/A 1:34:24 16
Agnė Visockaitė 100 m 11.87 6 Did not advance
Field events
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Distance Position Distance Position
Renata Gustaitytė Discus throw 53.64 30 Did not advance
Rita Ramanauskaitė Javelin throw 59.21 13 Did not advance
Nelė Žilinskienė High jump 1.89 21 Did not advance
Combined events – Heptathlon
Athlete Event 100H HJ SP 200 m LJ JT 800 m Final Rank
Austra Skujytė Result 14.37 1.78 15.09 25.35 5.97 45.43 02:20.25 6034 12
Points 927 953 867 855 840 772 820

Basketball
Main article: Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Group A
Team W L PF PA PD Pts Tie
 United States50505359+14610
 Italy32332349−1781W–0L
 Lithuania32372339+3380W–1L
 France23372374−271W–0L
 China23368419−5170W–1L
 New Zealand05307416−1095
17 September
11:30
Italy  50–48  Lithuania
19 September
19:30
Lithuania  81–63  France
21 September
16:30
United States  85–76  Lithuania
23 September
9:30
Lithuania  82–66  China
25 September
11:30
Lithuania  85–75  New Zealand

Quarterfinals
28 September
11:30
Lithuania  76–63  Yugoslavia

Semi Finals
29 September
11:30
Lithuania  83–85  United States

Bronze Medal Match
1 October
11:30
Lithuania  89–71  Australia

Team Roster

Boxing
Main article: Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Ivanas Stapovičius Light Flyweight  Muhamed Kizito (UGA)
W 9-3		  Liborio Romero (MEX)
W 24-11		  Kim Un-Chol (PRK)
L 10-22		 Did not advance 5
Vidas Bičiulaitis Featherweight  Kamil Djamaloudinov (RUS)
L 5-9		 Did not advance

Canoeing
Main article: Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Sprint
Men
Athlete Event Heats Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Alvydas Duonėla K-1 500 m 1:43.877 7 QS 1:40.368 2 FA 2:04.591 7
Vaidas Mizeras K-1 1000 m 3:40.202 6 QS 3:41.969 6 Did not advance 14
Egidijus Balčiūnas
Alvydas Duonėla		 K-2 500 m 1:32.931 5 QS 1:32.084 5 FA Did not advance 9

Cycling
Main article: Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Road
Men
Athlete Event Time Rank
Artūras Kasputis Men's road race DNF
Men's road time trial 1:01:22 25
Remigijus Lupeikis Men's road race DNF
Raimondas Rumšas 5:30:46 44
Men's road time trial 1:01:08.95 23
Saulius Šarkauskas Men's road race DNF
Women
Athlete Event Time Rank
Edita Pučinskaitė Women's road race 3:06:37 25
Women's time trial 0:43:48 10
Diana Žiliūtė Women's road race 3:06:31
Women's time trial 0:43:39 9
Rasa Polikevičiūtė Women's road race 3:06:31 13

Track
Pursuit
Athlete Event Qualification Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Time Rank Opposition
Time		 Opposition
Time		 Opposition
Time		 Rank
Rasa Mažeikytė Women's individual pursuit 03:43.980 11 Did not advance
Points
Athlete Event Final
Points Rank
Rasa Mažeikytė Women's points race 2 12

Gymnastics
Main article: Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Artistic
Women
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Apparatus Total Rank Apparatus Total Rank
F V UB BB F V UB BB
Julija Kovaliova All-around 9.225 8.737 9.575 8.462 35.999 53 Did not advance

Judo
Main article: Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Preliminary Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Repechage 3 Repechage Final Final / BM
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Marius Paškevičius −100 kg BYE  Alejandro Bender (ARG)
W 0001–0000		  Mario Sabino (BRA)
L 0000–0001		 Did not advance

Modern Pentathlon
Main article: Modern Pentathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics

One male pentathlete represented Lithuania in 1992.

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
Points Points Points Points Points
Andrejus Zadneprovskis Men's 1000 840 1257 955 1184 5236 7

Rowing
Main article: Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Women
Athlete Event Heats Repechage Semifinals C-D Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Kristina Poplavskaja
Birutė Šakickienė		 Coxless pair 7:13.04 2 R 7:08.18 1 Q N/A 7:01.71

Sailing
Main article: Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Open
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 M
Giedrius Gužys Laser 18 30 35 22 17 22 26 12 6 25 29 177 25

Shooting
Main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Women
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Rank
Daina Gudzinevičiūtė Trap 71 OR 1 Q 93 OR

Swimming
Main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Darius Grigalionis 100 m backstroke 56.47 24 Did not advance
Rolandas Gimbutis 50 m freestyle 23.36 38 Did not advance
100 m freestyle 50.46 23 Did not advance
Arūnas Savickas 200 m freestyle 1:52.02 23 Did not advance
200 m backstroke 02:05.06 32 Did not advance
Arūnas Savickas
Minvydas Packevičius
Saulius Binevičius
Rolandas Gimbutis		 4×100 m freestyle relay 03:23.68 16 Did not advance
Women
Athlete Event Heat Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Jūratė Ladavičiūtė 50 m freestyle 27.54 50 Did not advance
100 m freestyle 58.78 41 Did not advance

Table tennis
Main article: Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Singles
Athlete Event Group round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Bronze medal Final
Opposition
Result		 Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Rūta Garkauskaitė Women's singles Group I
 Chunli Li  (NZL)
L 1 – 3
 Berta Rodríguez  (CHI)
W 3 – 1		 2 Did not advance
Doubles
Athlete Event Group round Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Bronze medal Final
Opposition
Result		 Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Rūta Garkauskaitė
Jolanta Prūsienė		 Women's doubles Group B
 Kazuko Naito
Rinko Sakata (JPN)
W 2 – 0
 Lay Jian Fang
Stella Zhou (AUS)
W 2 – 0		 1 Q  Sun Jin
Yang Ying (CHN)
L 0 – 3		 Did not advance

Weightlifting
Main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Snatch Clean & Jerk Total Rank
Result Rank Result Rank
Ramūnas Vyšniauskas −105 kg 175.0 14 210.0 10 385.0 11

Wrestling
Main article: Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Men's freestyle
Athlete Event Elimination Pool Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Ričardas Pauliukonis −97 kg  Eldar Kurtanidze (GEO)
L 1-11		  Arawat Sabejew (GER)
L 1-5		 N/A 3 Did not advance 17
Men's Greco-Roman
Athlete Event Elimination Pool Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / BM
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Mindaugas Ežerskis −97 kg  Sergey Lishtvan (BLR)
W 3-1		  Hassene Fkiri (TUN)
W 6-3		  Davyd Saldadze (UKR)
L 0-2		 2 Did not advance 8

References
  • Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
  • International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
  • Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
  • Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
  • Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
  • International Olympic Committee Web Site
  • International Olympic Committee Web Site - Lithuania Page. Retrieved 7 January 2010
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