{"id":128421,"date":"2026-01-28T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/128421-in-memoriam-liudmila-zaikina-barakuniene-1937-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:01:00","slug":"in-memoriam-liudmila-zaikina-barakuniene-1937-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/feed\/128421-in-memoriam-liudmila-zaikina-barakuniene-1937-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Liudmila Zaikina Barak\u016bnien\u0117 (1937- 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118924\" src=\"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Barakuniene.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>It is with deep sadness that we announce that on January 27 of this year, at the age of 89, the well-known Lithuanian track and field athlete <strong>Liudmila ZAIKINA BARAK\u016aNIEN\u0116<\/strong> died.<\/p>\n<p>She was one of the most prominent runners of her generation: 7 times she became the Lithuanian champion (in 200 m, 400 m and relay races), 9 times she improved the Lithuanian 4oo m running record (from 59.5 seconds to 57.3 seconds), 6 times &#8211; the relay records. 1957\u20131961 Lyudmila was a member of the Lithuanian national athletics team.  <\/p>\n<p>We sincerely sympathize with the relatives of the deceased, all those who trained, competed or worked with her. It will remain in the memory of the athletics community forever. <\/p>\n<p><em>The urn will be laid to rest on January 29 from 4:00 p.m. at the funeral home &#8220;Broken String&#8221; (Vilnius, \u0104\u017euolyno St. 10). Departure on January 30 at 1:00 p.m. Funeral in Vilnius Suderv\u0117 Cemetery (Vir\u0161uli\u0161k\u0117s).    <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with deep sadness that we announce that on January 27 of this year, at the age of 89, the well-known Lithuanian track and field athlete Liudmila ZAIKINA BARAK\u016aNIEN\u0116 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":101414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In memoriam: Liudmila Zaikina Barak\u016bnien\u0117 (1937- 2026) &#8211; LLAF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/feed\/128421-in-memoriam-liudmila-zaikina-barakuniene-1937-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In memoriam: Liudmila Zaikina Barak\u016bnien\u0117 (1937- 2026) &#8211; 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