{"id":111815,"date":"2025-08-08T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/111815-excellent-performance-by-j-baikscis-in-belgrade-an-easy-victory-and-a-result-that-brought-a-ticket-to-the-european-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:05:07","slug":"excellent-performance-by-j-baikscis-in-belgrade-an-easy-victory-and-a-result-that-brought-a-ticket-to-the-european-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/111815-excellent-performance-by-j-baikscis-in-belgrade-an-easy-victory-and-a-result-that-brought-a-ticket-to-the-european-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent performance by J. Baik\u0161\u010dis in Belgrade \u2013 an easy victory and a result that brought a ticket to the European Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday in Belgrade (Serbia), in the bronze competition of the World Athletics continental tour, the high jumper <strong>Juozas Baik\u0161tys<\/strong> put on a show. The athlete not only won a convincing victory (the runner-up was overtaken by nine centimeters), but also repeated his personal record \u2013 2.27 m. <\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanian overcame the heights of 2.05 m, 2.08 m, 2.11 m, 2.14 m, 2.16 m, 2.18 m, 2.24 m, 2.27 m in the first attempts, and 2.20 m and 2.22 m in the second attempts. J. Baik\u0161tys did not rise to such a height for four years, and the achieved result brought a direct roadmap to the European Championships to be held in Birmingham (Great Britain) next year. <\/p>\n<p>The norm for the World Championships to be held in Tokyo (Japan) next month is 2.33 m. Discus thrower <strong>Mykolas Alekna <\/strong>and middle-distance runner <strong>Gabija Galvydyt\u0117<\/strong> have a guaranteed ticket to the Far East, and the qualification system is open until August 25. The Lithuanian high jump record since 1991 belongs <strong>to Rolandas Verkis<\/strong> (2.34 m).  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>lengvoji.lt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Alfredas Pliadis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday in Belgrade (Serbia), in the bronze competition of the World Athletics continental tour, the high jumper Juozas Baik\u0161tys put on a show. The athlete not only won a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":111813,"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-111815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}