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Full name | Aurimas Valaitis | ||||||||||||||
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Born | Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | 22 April 1988||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
Club | Centras Kaunas | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aurimas Valaitis (born 22 April 1988) is a Lithuanian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. [1] He beat a 29-second barrier to earn a bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with his personal best of 28.98. [2]
Valaitis qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke, as Lithuania's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.71 from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [3] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 15-year-old Nguyen Huu Viet of Vietnam. He raced to fourth place by 0.12 of a second behind New Zealand's Ben Labowitch, breaking his personal best of 1:04.11. Valaitis failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-eighth overall on the first day of preliminaries. [4] [5]
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Aurimas Valaitis | ||||||||||||||
National team | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Born | Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | 22 April 1988||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||
Club | Centras Kaunas | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Aurimas Valaitis (born 22 April 1988) is a Lithuanian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events. [1] He beat a 29-second barrier to earn a bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with his personal best of 28.98. [2]
Valaitis qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke, as Lithuania's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.71 from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [3] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 15-year-old Nguyen Huu Viet of Vietnam. He raced to fourth place by 0.12 of a second behind New Zealand's Ben Labowitch, breaking his personal best of 1:04.11. Valaitis failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-eighth overall on the first day of preliminaries. [4] [5]