{"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. 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