On July 16-19, the European Junior Athletics Championships (under 18 years old) took place in Rietis (Italy), and eleven Lithuanian representatives successfully performed in it. The star of the jumper Redas Šiupis shines brightest.

The 17-year-old Lithuanian completed 2.09 m in the long jump final, improved his personal record by one centimeter, recorded the best result of the Lithuanian season and took 4th place. The bronze medal was very close – the German Jan Ungeheuer, who remained in third place, demonstrated the same result as R. Šiuipys, but the German needed one less attempt. By the way, Redas also had the opportunity to participate in the triple jump event, but the qualification competition took place just a few hours apart from the high jump final, so it was decided to concentrate on the latter.

Other results of the Lithuanian representatives:

10th place – Darija Matukaitytė, high jump (1.70 m);

10th place – Liucija Džiaugytė, javelin throw (44.76 m);

14th place – Samanta Machankovaitė, 3000 m (9 min. 53.85 sec.);

14th place – Justė Andrijauskaitė, 5000 m athletic walk (24 min. 23.30 sec.);

23rd place – Jokūbas Avgustaitis, shot put (16.22 m);

24th place – Gertė Žičkutė, triple jump (11.84 m);

28th place – Gintarė Minevičiūtė, discus throw (40.08 m);

33rd place – Vėtrūnė Adomavičiūtė, 800 m (2 min. 24.21 sec.);

34th place – Simona Šlapšinskaitė, 400 m (57.18 sec.);

36th place – Viktorija Urbelytė, discus throw (35.33 m).

The next European Junior Championship will take place in Estonia in 2028.

Photo. Martín De Álava Pérez