The European Youth Olympic Festival athletics competition kicked off on Monday in Skopje, North Macedonia. Ten Lithuanians will participate in them, four of them started in the qualification competition on the first day:
Ieva Šadžiūtė finished fifth in the 100 m qualification race (12.04/-1.0), seventh in the semifinals (11.90/0.6, personal best) and took the final fourteenth place.
Martynas Kolupaila took third place in the 100 m qualification race (10.89/-0.4), was fifth in the semi-final race (10.72/0.2) and took ninth place in the festival.
Redas Šiuipys, who overcame a height of 1.95 m (1.85/1 1.90/1 1.95/1 2.01/xxx), took fifteenth place and did not make it to the final.
Simona Šlapšinskaitė finished sixth in the first 400 m qualifying run (57.94), and her result was sixteenth among all participants.
Lithuanians will not start on Tuesday.