Before the first month of the year, three national records for adults have already fallen, and two more have been improved by the country’s youth.

On the evening of January 16, happy news arrived from the USA – runner Gabija Galvydytė won the Thane Baker Invitational competition in Manhattan (Kansas) on the eve of her 26th birthday and improved the Lithuanian 1000 m short track record that existed for 38 years – 2 minutes 35.17 seconds. This is the best result of this winter season in the world and the 23rd in history. The previous Lithuanian record (2:35.5) since 1988 belonged to Laimutė Baikauskaitė. Gabija also holds the Lithuanian 800, 1500 m and mile short track records.

January 17 At the Lithuanian Youth Championship in Vilnius, two national records were set:

Last weekend, Giedrius Valinčius improved the 10 km road running record (28 minutes 19 seconds), and Rugilė Miklyčiūtė repeated the pole vault record (4.35 m).

Photo by Alfredas Pliadis