{"id":128391,"date":"2026-02-09T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/128391-unstoppable-s-bertasius-broke-2-lithuanian-records-in-4-days\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:01:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T09:01:51","slug":"unstoppable-s-bertasius-broke-2-lithuanian-records-in-4-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/128391-unstoppable-s-bertasius-broke-2-lithuanian-records-in-4-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstoppable: S. Berta\u0161ius broke 2 Lithuanian records in 4 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Lithuanian champion and record holder <strong>Simas Berta\u0161ius<\/strong> added two more impressive records to his dowry of achievements. January 31 At the John Thomas Terrier Classic in Boston (USA), the athlete completed <strong>the 5000 m<\/strong> short course in <strong>13 minutes 27 seconds<\/strong>. and even<strong> 18.1 seconds.<\/strong> improved the 23-year-old national record that belonged to Mindaugas Puk\u0161tas.   <\/p>\n<p>Just a few days later, on February 4, at the IFAM Louvain-La-Neuve Indoor competition in Belgium, S. Berta\u0161ius completed the<strong> 3000 m<\/strong> short course in <strong>7 minutes 52.73 seconds<\/strong>. and improved the Lithuanian record that had existed for 48 years. So far, the best result in the country (7 minutes 55 seconds) belonged to Aleksandr Antipovas.  <\/p>\n<p>Simas also owns the 1500 m short track and 1000 m, 1500 m, mile and 3000 m stadium records.<\/p>\n<p>Thanking him for the congratulations on social networks, the student <strong>of Juozapas Garalevi\u010dius<\/strong> said that it was &#8220;a challenge that he will want to repeat&#8221;, and speaking to LRT, he added that he is still happy with every record. &#8220;Although there were many records, you never know who might be last. You don&#8217;t know when that limit will be reached,&#8221; S. Berta\u0161ius concluded.  <\/p>\n<p>The next start of the athlete is <strong>February 28 \u2013 March 1.<\/strong> The <strong>Lithuanian Championship<\/strong> will take place at the Kaunas President Valdas Adamkus Athletics Arena.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Alfredas Pliadis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Lithuanian champion and record holder Simas Berta\u0161ius added two more impressive records to his dowry of achievements. January 31 At the John Thomas Terrier Classic in Boston (USA), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":119194,"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-128391","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\/128391","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}