Aurimas Valaitis
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| Full name | Aurimas Valaitis | ||||||||||||
| National team |
 Lithuania | ||||||||||||
| Born |
22 April 1988 Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||
| 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 April 22, 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]
References
- ↑ "Aurimas Valaitis". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ↑ Rusticus, Oene (9 July 2006). "Italy Highlights Third Day of European Junior Championships". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ↑ "Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
- ↑ Whitten, Phillip (14 August 2004). "Prelims, Men's 100 Breaststroke: Kitajima, Hansen Qualify One-Two; Japanese Sets Olympic Record". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.