{"id":131280,"date":"2026-05-31T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/131280-the-lithuanian-national-team-in-the-european-championship-is-growing-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:13:12","slug":"the-lithuanian-national-team-in-the-european-championship-is-growing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/131280-the-lithuanian-national-team-in-the-european-championship-is-growing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lithuanian national team in the European Championship is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little more than 2 months before<strong> the European Athletics Championships<\/strong>, it is already clear that at least 7 athletes have won the opportunity to represent Lithuania \u2013 that&#8217;s 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 completed both the 800 and 1500 m distance norms), high jumper <strong>Juozas Baik\u0161\u010dis<\/strong> and multi-athlete <strong>Beatri\u010d\u0117 Ju\u0161kevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong><strong><\/strong> were joined by discus throwers <strong>Andrius Gud\u017eius<\/strong> and <strong>Ieva Gumbs<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>A. Gud\u017eius on May 28 In the cup competition of the sports school &#8220;Startas&#8221; held in Kaunas, the best attempt was 65.50 m \u2013 this is what the championship standard is aiming for. For Andrius, this will be the seventh championship of the Old Continent in a row.  <\/p>\n<p>At that time, I. Gumbs on May 31. In the competition held in Ramona (USA), she threw the discus 61.45 m in her best attempt and solidly overtook the American Fenne Biljhouwer (45.58 m), who remained in second place. The norm of the European Championship is 61.00 m. For Ieva, this will be the fourth championship of the Old Continent.   <\/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. Qualification takes place until July 26. You can follow it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.european-athletics.com\/home\/competitions\/european-athletics-championships\/road-to-birmingham\"><strong>Road to Birmingham<\/strong><\/a>   <\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Alfredas Pliadis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little more than 2 months before the European Athletics Championships, it is already clear that at least 7 athletes have won the opportunity to represent Lithuania \u2013 that&#8217;s how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":131281,"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-131280","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 v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Lithuanian national team in the European Championship is growing &#8211; 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