Lithuania at the 2000 Summer Olympics

IOC code	LTU
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Lithuania
Website	www.ltok.lt (in Lithuanian and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	61 in 15 sports
Flag bearer	Romas Ubartas
Medals Ranked 33rd	Gold 2 Silver 0 Bronze 3 Total 5
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Lithuania competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Lithuania finished in 33rd position in the final medal rankings, with two gold medals and three bronze medals.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Virgilijus Alekna	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Gold	Daina Gudzinevičiūtė	Shooting	Women's trap shooting
Bronze	Saulius Štombergas Mindaugas Timinskas Eurelijus Žukauskas Darius Maskoliūnas Ramūnas Šiškauskas Darius Songaila Šarūnas Jasikevičius Kęstutis Marčiulionis Tomas Masiulis Dainius Adomaitis Gintaras Einikis Andrius Giedraitis	Basketball	Men's team competition
Bronze	Diana Žiliūtė	Cycling	Women's individual road race
Bronze	Kristina Poplavskaja Birutė Šakickienė	Rowing	Women's double sculls

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jonas Motiejūnas	400 m	DNF		did not advance
Daugvinas Zujus	50 km walk	—						4:06:04	30

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Virgilijus Alekna	Discus throw	67.10	3 Q	69.30
Tomas Bardauskas	Long jump	7.70	27	did not advance
Arūnas Jurkšas	Javelin throw	73.05	29	did not advance
Vaclavas Kidykas	Discus throw	58.96	30	did not advance
Saulius Kleiza	Shot put	18.59	28	did not advance
Romas Ubartas	Discus throw	60.50	27	did not advance

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Inga Juodeškienė	5000 m	15:46.37	29	did not advance
Irina Krakoviak	1500 m	04:10.21	6 Q	—		04:14.57	11	did not advance
Sonata Milušauskaitė	20 km walk	—						1:37:14	31
Žana Minina	400 m	52.38	3 Q	52.53	6	did not advance
Kristina Saltanovič	20 km walk	—						1:34:24	16
Agnė Visockaitė	100 m	11.87	6	did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Renata Gustaitytė	Discus throw	53.64	30	did not advance
Rita Ramanauskaitė	Javelin throw	59.21	13	did not advance
Nelė Žilinskienė	High jump	1.89	21	did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final	Rank
Austra Skujytė	Result	14.37	1.78	15.09	25.35	5.97	45.43	02:20.25	6034	12
Austra Skujytė	Points	927	953	867	855	840	772	820	6034	12

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's team competition

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Tie
United States	5	0	505	359	+146	10
Italy	3	2	332	349	−17	8	1W–0L
Lithuania	3	2	372	339	+33	8	0W–1L
France	2	3	372	374	−2	7	1W–0L
China	2	3	368	419	−51	7	0W–1L
New Zealand	0	5	307	416	−109	5

17 September
11:30

Italy

50–48

Lithuania

The Dome, Sydney

19 September
19:30

Lithuania

81–63

France

The Dome, Sydney

21 September
16:30

United States

85–76

Lithuania

The Dome, Sydney

23 September
9:30

Lithuania

82–66

China

The Dome, Sydney

25 September
11:30

Lithuania

85–75

New Zealand

The Dome, Sydney

Quarterfinals

28 September
11:30

Lithuania

76–63

Yugoslavia

The Dome, Sydney

Semi-finals

29 September
11:30

Lithuania

83–85

United States

The Dome, Sydney

Bronze-medal match

1 October
11:30

Lithuania

89–71

Australia

The Dome, Sydney

Team Roster

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ivanas Stapovičius	Light Flyweight	Muhamed Kizito (UGA) W 9-3	Liborio Romero (MEX) W 24-11	Kim Un-Chol (PRK) L 10-22	Did not advance		5
Vidas Bičiulaitis	Featherweight	Kamil Djamaloudinov (RUS) L 5-9	Did not advance

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alvydas Duonėla	K-1 500 m	1:43.877	7 QS	1:40.368	2 FA	2:04.591	7
Vaidas Mizeras	K-1 1000 m	3:40.202	6 QS	3:41.969	6	Did not advance	14
Egidijus Balčiūnas Alvydas Duonėla	K-2 500 m	1:32.931	5 QS	1:32.084	5 FA	Did not advance	9

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Artūras Kasputis	Men's road race	DNF
Artūras Kasputis	Men's road time trial	1:01:22	25
Remigijus Lupeikis	Men's road race	DNF
Raimondas Rumšas	Men's road race	5:30:46	44
Raimondas Rumšas	Men's road time trial	1:01:08.95	23
Saulius Šarkauskas	Men's road race	DNF

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Edita Pučinskaitė	Women's road race	3:06:37	25
Edita Pučinskaitė	Women's time trial	0:43:48	10
Diana Žiliūtė	Women's road race	3:06:31
Diana Žiliūtė	Women's time trial	0:43:39	9
Rasa Polikevičiūtė	Women's road race	3:06:31	13

Track

Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Rasa Mažeikytė	Women's individual pursuit	03:43.980	11	did not advance

Points

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank
Rasa Mažeikytė	Women's points race	2	12

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Artistic

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank	F	V	UB	BB	Total	Rank
Julija Kovaliova	All-around	9.225	8.737	9.575	8.462	35.999	53	did not advance

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Repechage final	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Marius Paškevičius	−100 kg	BYE	Alejandro Bender (ARG) W 0001–0000	Mário Sabino (BRA) L 0000–0001	did not advance

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics

One male pentathlete represented Lithuania in 1992.

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)	Fencing (épée one touch)	Swimming (200 m freestyle)	Riding (show jumping)	Running (3000 m)	Total points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	Points	Points	Points	Points	Points	Total points	Final rank
Andrejus Zadneprovskis	Men's	1000	840	1257	955	1184	5236	7

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals C-D		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kristina Poplavskaja Birutė Šakickienė	Coxless pair	7:13.04	2 R	7:08.18	1 Q	—				7:01.71

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Open

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M	Net points	Final rank
Giedrius Gužys	Laser	18	30	35	22	17	22	26	12	6	25	29	177	25

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Daina Gudzinevičiūtė	Trap	71 OR	1 Q	93 OR

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Darius Grigalionis	100 m backstroke	56.47	24	did not advance
Rolandas Gimbutis	50 m freestyle	23.36	38	did not advance
Rolandas Gimbutis	100 m freestyle	50.46	23	did not advance
Arūnas Savickas	200 m freestyle	1:52.02	23	did not advance
Arūnas Savickas	200 m backstroke	02:05.06	32	did not advance
Arūnas Savickas Minvydas Packevičius Saulius Binevičius Rolandas Gimbutis	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	03:23.68	16	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jūratė Ladavičiūtė	50 m freestyle	27.54	50	did not advance
Jūratė Ladavičiūtė	100 m freestyle	58.78	41	did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Bronze medal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rūta Garkauskaitė	Women's singles	Group I Chunli Li (NZL) L 1 – 3 Berta Rodríguez (CHI) W 3 – 1	2	did not advance

Doubles

Athlete	Event	Group round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Bronze medal	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Rūta Garkauskaitė Jolanta Prūsienė	Women's doubles	Group B Kazuko Naito Rinko Sakata (JPN) W 2 – 0 Lay Jian Fang Stella Zhou (AUS) W 2 – 0	1 Q	Sun Jin Yang Ying (CHN) L 0 – 3	did not advance

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Ramūnas Vyšniauskas	−105 kg	175.0	14	210.0	10	385.0	11

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ričardas Pauliukonis	−97 kg	Eldar Kurtanidze (GEO) L 1-11	Arawat Sabejew (GER) L 1-5	—	3	did not advance			17

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mindaugas Ežerskis	−97 kg	Sergey Lishtvan (BLR) W 3-1	Hassene Fkiri (TUN) W 6-3	Davyd Saldadze (UKR) L 0-2	2	did not advance			8

References

Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
International Olympic Committee Web Site
International Olympic Committee Web Site – Lithuania Page. Retrieved 7 January 2010

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