{"id":128576,"date":"2026-04-17T09:24:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/128576-the-lithuanian-national-team-in-the-european-championship-is-growing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:24:43","slug":"the-lithuanian-national-team-in-the-european-championship-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/128576-the-lithuanian-national-team-in-the-european-championship-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lithuanian national team in the European Championship is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 4 months before the<strong> European Athletics Championships<\/strong> , it is already clear that at least 5 athletes have won the opportunity to represent Lithuania \u2013 this is how many of them have fulfilled the norms of the championships. Discus throwers <strong>Mykolas and Martynas Aleknas<\/strong>, runner <strong>Gabija Galvydyt\u0117<\/strong> (who fulfilled both the 800 and 1500 m distance norms) and high jumper <strong>Juozas Baik\u0161\u010dis<\/strong> were joined by multi-athlete <strong>Beatri\u010d\u0117 Ju\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The track and field athlete, who trains across the Atlantic in Volnat (USA), scored 6323 points in the Mt.SAC Relays heptathlon, improved her personal record by 28 points and became the winner of this competition.<\/p>\n<p>Results in individual events: 100 m b\/b \u2013 13.35 sec., height \u2013 1.68 m, shot put \u2013 14.99 m (personal best), 200 m \u2013 24.04 sec., distance \u2013 6.24 m (personal best), javelin \u2013 45.44 m, 800 m \u2013 2 min. 15.35 sec.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to remind you that in March, Beatri\u010d\u0117 made her debut <strong>at the World Indoor Athletics Championships<\/strong> and won <strong>9th place there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Championship will take place <strong>on August 10-16 in Birmingham (UK).<\/strong> It is possible to enter it not only by meeting the norm, but also by ranking \u2013 this is how more Lithuanians usually get in. 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You can follow it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.european-athletics.com\/home\/competitions\/european-athletics-championships\/road-to-birmingham\">Road to Birmingham<\/a>   <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Alfredas Pliadis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 4 months before the European Athletics Championships , it is already clear that at least 5 athletes have won the opportunity to represent Lithuania \u2013 this is how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":114254,"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-128576","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 Lithuanian national team in the European Championship is growing &#8211; 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