{"id":129745,"date":"2026-05-16T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T13:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/129745-debut-in-the-diamond-league-marked-with-a-lithuanian-record\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:28:30","slug":"debut-in-the-diamond-league-marked-with-a-lithuanian-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/129745-debut-in-the-diamond-league-marked-with-a-lithuanian-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Debut in the &#8220;Diamond League&#8221; marked with a Lithuanian record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, the new season <strong>of the Diamond League<\/strong> began in Shanghai (China). In the first stage, two representatives of Lithuania also competed \u2013 discus thrower <strong>Martynas Alekna<\/strong> and runner <strong>Gabija Galvydyt\u0117<\/strong>. For her, it was the debut of the Diamond League.   <\/p>\n<p>The debut will be recorded in the history of Lithuania \u2013 Gabija completed the 1500 m in<strong> 3 minutes 59.74 seconds and<\/strong> became the first Lithuanian in history to run this distance in less than 4 minutes. At the same time, the <strong>Lithuanian record <\/strong>(4 min. 00, 24 sec.), which belonged to Laimut\u0117 Baikauskait\u0117, which had existed for 38 years, was achieved at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. <\/p>\n<p>Gabia&#8217;s previous personal record was 4 minutes 00.71 seconds. By the way, the athlete also holds the Lithuanian records of 800, 1000, 1500 m and a mile in the short course. <\/p>\n<p>Already a week later (May 23) Gabija will also participate in the second stage of the &#8220;Diamond League&#8221; in China, in the city of Xiamen.<\/p>\n<p>Martynas Alekna threw the discus <strong>59.89 m<\/strong> in Shanghai with the best attempt and took ninth place, as in his debut &#8220;Diamond League&#8221; in Morocco in May 2024. <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Alfredas Pliadis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, the new season of the Diamond League began in Shanghai (China). In the first stage, two representatives of Lithuania also competed \u2013 discus thrower Martynas Alekna and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":123150,"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-129745","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\/129745","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=129745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129767,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129745\/revisions\/129767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}