On Thursday, the European U23 Athletics Championships began in Bergen. On the first day, 11 Lithuanian athletes fought for tickets to the next stages. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded.
100 m qualification runs (3Q+4q made it to the semi-finals). Ema Rupšytė finished fourth in the third run (11.70/-1.0), Andrė Ožechauskaitė in the second run – seventh (12.13/-0.5). Emma’s result in the qualification was 18th, Andrė’s – 26th, they failed to make it to the semi-finals. Results.
100 m qualification runs. Adas Dambrauskas did not start due to injury.
Pole jumping. Nikodemas Laurynas took 21st place in the qualification and did not make it to the final competition – 5.00 m (5.00/1, 5.15/xxx). Results.
In the 400 m fourth qualifying run, Lukas Sutkus’ result was eighth (47.28), he took 24th place in the championship. Results.
Ema Sarafinaitė took sixth place in the second 400 m qualification run (54.73), she was 21st in the overall standings. Results
in the 100 m barrier run qualification Neda Lasickaitė’s result (13.72/0.5, personal record) was 26th, and Gabija Klimukaitė’s (14.27/-1.3) was 44th. Results.
In the high jump qualification, Satera Balčaitytė took 22nd place (1.73), Evelina Bukauskaitė – 27th place (1.68). Results.
Kasparas Bačianskas, who threw the javelin 60.85 m (57.90-59.52-60.85), took 20th place in the championship. Results.