{"id":110334,"date":"2025-07-27T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/110334-the-last-lithuanian-athletes-made-their-debut-at-the-european-youth-olympic-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:59:36","slug":"the-last-lithuanian-athletes-made-their-debut-at-the-european-youth-olympic-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/110334-the-last-lithuanian-athletes-made-their-debut-at-the-european-youth-olympic-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The last Lithuanian athletes made their debut at the European Youth Olympic Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday and Saturday, three Lithuanian track and field athletes competed at the 18th European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, which took place in the heat of North Macedonia for a whole week. 15-year-old javelin thrower <strong>Liucija D\u017eiaugyt\u0117<\/strong> remained 15th (38 m 47 cm), while her peer <strong>Just\u0117 Andrijauskait\u0117<\/strong> finished ninth in the 5000 m distance (25 min. 13.06 sec.). <\/p>\n<p>In the competition on Friday and Saturday, 16-year-old <strong>multi-athlete Gvidas Jurkevi\u010dius<\/strong> appeared. On Friday, he ran the 100 m in 11.67 seconds, jumped 6 m 39 cm, pushed the ball 15 m 17 cm, jumped 194 cm, ran the 400 m in 51.38 seconds. After five ten-fight matches, the Lithuanian was sixth among 16 participants (3691 points).<\/p>\n<p>The multi-fighter was the last of the Lithuanians to finish the fight in Skopje. The student of <strong>Olympian Indr\u0117 Jakubaityt\u0117<\/strong> achieved a ten-fight personal record (6630 points) and took ninth place. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, he covered the 110 m hurdles in 16.39 seconds, threw the discus 42 m 50 cm, jumped 3 m 50 cm with a pole, flew the javelin 49 m 21 cm, ran the 1500 m in 5 minutes 15.21 seconds. A total of 10 Lithuanian athletes participated in the festival.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>LNOC information<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Rokas Snarskis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday and Saturday, three Lithuanian track and field athletes competed at the 18th European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, which took place in the heat of North Macedonia for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":110332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The last Lithuanian athletes made their debut at the European Youth Olympic Festival &#8211; 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