Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics


Lithuania was represented at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China by the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee.
In total, 71 athletes including 44 men and 27 women represented Lithuania in 16 different sports including athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, gymnastics, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling.
Lithuania won a total five medals at the games including three silver and two bronze in athletics, sailing, modern pentathlon and wrestling.

Competitors

In total, 71 athletes represented Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China across 16 different sports.
SportMenWomenTotal
Athletics61218
Badminton112
Basketball12012
Boxing303
Canoeing404
Cycling268
Gymnastics010
Judo101
Modern pentathlon224
Rowing101
Sailing011
Shooting011
Swimming729
Table tennis011
Weightlifting101
Wrestling404
Total442771

Medalists

Lithuania won a total of five medals at the games after Gintarė Volungevičiūtė, Edvinas Krungolcas and Mindaugas Mizgaitis won silver in the sailing, modern pentathlon and wrestling respectively and Virgilijus Alekna and Andrejus Zadneprovskis won bronze in the athletics and modern pentathlon respectively.
MedalNameSportEvent
SailingWomen's Laser Radial
Modern pentathlonMen's event
WrestlingMen's Greco-Roman 120 kg
AthleticsMen's discus throw
Modern pentathlonMen's event

Athletics

In total, 18 Lithuanian athletes participated in the athletics eventsVirgilijus Alekna in the men's discus throw, Eglė Balčiūnaitė in the women's 800 m, Živilė Balčiūnaitė and Rasa Drazdauskaitė in the women's marathon, Lina Grinčikaitė in the women's 100 m, Vitalij Kozlov in the men's 800 m, Sonata Milušauskaitė and Kristina Saltanovič in the women's 20 km walk, Zinaida Sendriūtė in the women's discus throw, Darius Škarnulis, Donatas Škarnulis and Tadas Šuškevičius in the men's 50 km walk, Austra Skujytė in the heptathlon, Inga Stasiulionytė in the women's javelin throw, Rasa Troup in the women's 3,000 m steeplechase, Karina Vnukova in the women's high jump and Marius Žiūkas in the men's 20 km walk.
;Men
;Track & road events
;Field events
;Women
;Track & road events
;Field events

Badminton

In total, two Lithuanian athletes participated in the badminton events – Kęstutis Navickas in the men's singles and Akvilė Stapušaitytė in the women's singles.

Basketball

In total, 12 Lithuanian athletes participated in the basketball events – Simas Jasaitis, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Robertas Javtokas, Rimantas Kaukėnas, Linas Kleiza, Darjuš Lavrinovič, Kšyštof Lavrinovič, Mindaugas Lukauskis, Jonas Mačiulis, Marijonas Petravičius, Marius Prekevičius and Ramūnas Šiškauskas in the men's tournament.
;Group play
;Quarterfinals
;Semifinals
;Bronze medal game

Boxing

In total, three Lithuanian athletes participated in the boxing events – Jaroslavas Jakšto in the super heavyweight category, Egidijus Kavaliauskas in the light welterweight category and Daugirdas Semiotas in the light heavyweight category.

Canoeing

In total, four Lithuanian athletes participated in the canoeing events – Egidijus Balčiūnas and Alvydas Duonėla in the men's K-2 500 m and Tomas Gadeikis and Raimundas Labuckas in the men's C-2 500 m.
Qualification Legend: QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final

Cycling

In total, eight Lithuanian athletes participated in the cycling events – Dainius Kairelis, Ignatas Konovalovas, Simona Krupeckaitė, Svetlana Pauliukaitė, Jolanta Polikevičiūtė, Edita Pučinskaitė, Vilija Sereikaitė and Modesta Vžesniauskaitė.

Track

;Sprint
;Pursuit
;Omnium
AthleteEventPointsLapsRank
Svetlana PauliukaitėWomen's points race2012

Gymnastics

In total, one Lithuanian athlete participated in the gymnastic events – Jelena Zanevskaya in the women's artistic individual all-around.

Judo

In total, one Lithuanian athlete participated in the judo events – Albert Techov in the men's −60 kg category.

Modern pentathlon

In total, four Lithuanian athletes participated in the modern pentathlon events – Laura Asadauskaitė and Donata Rimšaitė in the women's competition and Edvinas Krungolcas and Andrejus Zadneprovskis in the men's competition.

Rowing

In total, one Lithuanian athlete participated in the rowing events – Mindaugas Griškonis in the men's single sculls.
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A ; FB=Final B ; FC=Final C ; FD=Final D ; FE=Final E ; FF=Final F ; SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

In total, one Lithuanian athlete participated in the sailing events – Gintarė Volungevičiūtė in the women's laser radial.
M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; CAN = Race cancelled;

Shooting

In total, one Lithuanian athlete participated in the shooting events – Daina Gudzinevičiūtė in the women's trap.

Swimming

In total, nine Lithuanian athletes participated in the swimming events – Saulius Binevičius, Edvinas Dautartas, Raminta Dvariškytė, Rolandas Gimbutis, Vytautas Janušaitis, Rugilė Mileišytė, Rimvydas Šalčius, Giedrius Titenis and Paulius Viktoravičius.
;Men
;Women

Table tennis

In total, one Lithuanian athlete participated in the table tennis events – Rūta Paškauskienė in the women's singles.

Weightlifting

In total, one Lithuanian athlete participated in the weightlifting events – Ramūnas Vyšniauskas in the men's −105 kg category.

Wrestling

In total, four Lithuanian athletes participated in the wrestling events – Mindaugas Ežerskis in the men's Greco-Roman −96 kg category, Aleksandr Kazakevič in the men's Greco-Roman −66 kg category, Mindaugas Mizgaitis in the men's Greco-Roman −120 kg category and Valdemaras Venckaitis in the men's Greco-Roman −74 kg category.