Lithuania Post has received more than thousand and a half suggestions from the public on the themes for the next year’s postage stamps, informs post.lt. The residents wish to see not only conventional images, but today’s celebrates as well. Among the themes mentioned, Lithuania Post …
Olympic and World champion Rūta Meilutytė has to explain, almost every interview, to the British journalist that she is and will be Lithuanian. “For swimming and studying I had to leave Lithuania and go to Great Britain. I will always want to represent my country, …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune On Friday, 14 December, the new world champion of the 50 meters breaststroke and the championship record holder, the 15 year old Rūta Meilutytė, won the silver medal in the 100 meters medley race in the world championships. The …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune The young Lithuanian superstar, Rūta Meilūtytė, won her second gold medal on 15 December and came third in the world championships, which took place in Istanbul, Turkey. Meilūtytė won it for the 100 meters breaststroke swim, while breaking another …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune The 15 year old Lithuanian swimmer, Rūta Meilutytė, became the new world breaststroke champion to swim to 50 meters in the world championship for short pools (25 meters), which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. Meilutytė, an Olympic gold …
Even with borrowed boats, Lithuanian sailors found themselves among the leaders in the Olympic class regatta in Grand Canary Island. On Sunday, the XVI Olympic Sailing Week came to a close on Spain’s Grand Canary Island. Nine races took place over five days. Lithuanians …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune In Sweden on Sunday, the second and final day of the World Cup tournament, young Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė – who won the Olympic gold medal just two months ago in London – successfully overcame qualifiers and got into …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune A national Day of Sport was held in Lithuania on October 4th to celebrate those sportspeople who took medal-winning places at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and the 2012 World and European Championships, writes 15min.lt. According to Dalia Grybauskaite, …
During the London Olympics, there were 3,284 articles about Lithuanian Olympic representatives. The media mainly paid attention to swimming, basketball and track-and-field athletics, according to a survey completed by TNS LT, delfi.lt reported on 23 August. Articles about swimming made up 30% of all the …
Fredrik Rydström | The Lithuania Tribune So, now the Olympics has passed and left the world with new as well as old and reconfirmed heroes. As for Lithuania, not only did the country outdo itself by scoring an impressive five Olympic medals and position itself …
Published in sportas.info on 14 August The diary of Olympic attaché Antanas Guoga: the most successful Olympics, non-Lithuanian blood, solid bonuses, and powerful countries defeated. The record after the defeat by the Russian basketball team said it – maybe it’s the last record. However, a …
The XXX Summer Olympic Games in London on Sunday handed out the last fifteen sets of awards and in total – 302. With the most success since the restoration of independence, the Lithuanian Olympic team won two gold, one silver and two bronze medals, gaining …
Edvardas Pocius | The Lithuania Tribune A Lithuanian Greek-Roman wrestler Aleksandras Kazakevičius claimed an Olympic bronze medal on Sunday’s night. The 26-year-old was awarded after his respective win (3:0) over Denmark’s Mark Overgaard Madsen in the 74kg division. A par terre defence took the first …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune The Lithuanian national basketball team lost yesterday when it faced France in its third match in the tournament with a score of 82-74. During the entire game, the scores between both teams were close. The first quarter in the …
Even if Virgilijus Alekna throws the discus 70 metres and the basketball team makes it to the Olympic finals sixth time in a row, London Olympic Games will forever be remembered as the triumph of 15-year-old Rūta Meilutytė. Overnight, the swimmer turned from an ordinary …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune Lithuanian Cyclist Ramūnas Navardauskas, competing at the road time trail competition, finished today’s race with a time of 5:46.37, which left him in the 46th place. Navardauskas finished his performance in this Olympics in the 21st position with a …
The British media openly expresses pity that the Olympic sensation – the 15-year-old swimmer Ruta Meilutyte – decided to represent her home country Lithuania, and not Britain. The Lithuanian press has already dubbed her ‘swimming princess’. She suddenly became the biggest news in both Lithuania and …
Aleksejus Podpruginas | The Lithuania Tribune The Lithuanian national basketball team won its first match in the Olympics against Nigeria with a score of 72 – 53. Lithuania’s top scorers were L. Kleiza – 11 points and six ribounds; D. Songaila – 12 points; R. …
Fifteen year old swimmer Ruta Meilutyte, who has stunned the world, still cannot believe her success. On Tuesday Ruta interacted with her fans on social network “Facebook” for the first time after her triumph. She is hoping that her victory will help draw attention not …
US Ambassador Anne E. Derse congratulates Ruta Meilutyte, winner of the Olympic gold medal in swimming. “Last night, everyone in Lithuania watched the thrilling victory of Ruta Meilutyte. The US Embassy corps joins me in congratulating Ruta on her brilliant achievement for Lithuania. Ruta’s victory …
