{"id":98140,"date":"2025-07-13T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/98140-the-result-that-has-been-awaited-for-43-years-simas-bertasius-rewrote-history-once-again\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T01:02:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:02:00","slug":"the-result-that-has-been-awaited-for-43-years-simas-bertasius-rewrote-history-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/98140-the-result-that-has-been-awaited-for-43-years-simas-bertasius-rewrote-history-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The result that has been awaited for 43 years: Simas Berta\u0161ius rewrote history once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, athlete <strong>Simas Berta\u0161ius<\/strong> covered the 3000 m distance in 7 minutes 42.07 seconds in Watford (Great Britain) at the World Athletics Continental Tour British Milers Club Grand Prix, won the first place and improved the 43-year-old Lithuanian record. <strong>Harry Wakefield <\/strong>, who remained in second place, was overtaken by more than 5 seconds (7 minutes 47.20 seconds), while <strong>Jacob Cann <\/strong>, who took third place, was more than 10 seconds behind (7 minutes 52.36 seconds).<\/p>\n<p>The previous national record since 1982 <strong>belonged to Romas Sausaitis<\/strong> (7 min. 46.2 sec.). S. Berta\u0161ius&#8217; personal record to date was 7 minutes 55.16 seconds. <\/p>\n<p>This is already the 15th improved national record of Lithuanian track and field athletes this year.<\/p>\n<p>We remind you that S. Berta\u0161ius also holds the Lithuanian records for the 1000 m (2 min. 19.72 sec.), 1500 m (3 min. 37.19 sec.), 1500 m indoors (3 min. 38.32 sec.) and 1 mile (3 min. 59.25 sec.).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>lengvoji.lt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Alfredas Pliadis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, athlete Simas Berta\u0161ius covered the 3000 m distance in 7 minutes 42.07 seconds in Watford (Great Britain) at the World Athletics Continental Tour British Milers Club Grand Prix, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":97731,"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-98140","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\/98140","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}