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Lithuania competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was the first Olympiad after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Lithuania was one of three ex-Soviet republics to compete individually, with Estonia and Latvia being the other two, instead of competing on the Unified Team. 47 competitors, 36 men and 11 women, took part in 31 events in 11 sports.[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Gold Romas Ubartas Athletics Men's discus throw 5 August
 Bronze Lithuania men's national basketball team
 Basketball Men's tournament 8 August

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.[2]

Sport Men Women Total
Athletics 4 4 8
Basketball 12 0 12
Boxing 4 – 4
Canoeing 1 0 1
Cycling 1 4 5
Judo 1 0 1
Modern pentathlon 3 – 3
Rowing 5 3 8
Sailing 2 0 2
Swimming 2 0 2
Wrestling 1 – 1
Total 36 11 47

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men
Track & road events
Athlete Event Heat Quarterfinal Semifinal Final
Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank Result Rank
Viktoras Meškauskas 20 km walk — 1:33:24 26
Field events
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Distance Position Distance Position
Romas Ubartas Discus throw 66.08 1 Q 65.12
Vaclavas Kidykas 59.96 m 15 did not advance
Benjaminas Viluckis Hammer throw 70.54 20 did not advance
Women
Field events
Athlete Event Qualification Final
Distance Position Distance Position
Nelė Savickytė High jump 1.90 20 did not advance
Nijolė Medvedeva Long jump DSQ did not advance
Teresė Nekrošaitė Javelin throw 58.28 18 did not advance
Combined events – Heptathlon
Athlete Event 100H HJ SP 200 m LJ JT 800 m Final Rank
Remigija Nazarovienė Result 13.75 1.76 14.49 25.20 6.03 44.42 2:14.95 6142 14
Points 1.014 928 827 869 859 752 893

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary round

Group B

Qualified for the quarterfinals
Team W L PF PA PD Pts Tie
 CIS 4 1 425 373 +52 9 1–0
 Lithuania 4 1 481 424 +57 9 0–1
 Australia 3 2 432 396 +36 8 1–0
 Puerto Rico 3 2 445 440 +15 8 0–1
 Venezuela 1 4 392 427 −35 6
 China 0 5 381 496 −115 5
July 26
11:30
China  75–112  Lithuania
Scoring by half: 26–55, 49–57
July 27
11:30
Venezuela  79–87  Lithuania
Scoring by half: 46–38, 33–49
July 29
16:30
Lithuania  104–91  Puerto Rico
Scoring by half: 50–43, 54–48
July 31
16:30
Lithuania  80–92  CIS
Scoring by half: 38–26, 42–66
August 2
16:30
Australia  87–98  Lithuania
Scoring by half: 46–45, 41–53

Quarterfinals

August 4
20:30
Lithuania  114–96  Brazil
Scoring by half: 48–52, 66–44

Semifinals

August 6
22:30
Lithuania  76–127  United States
Scoring by half: 30–49, 46–78

Bronze medal game

August 8
13:00
CIS  78–82  Lithuania
Scoring by half: 33–39, 45–43

Team roster

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event 1 Round 2 Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Vitalijus Karpačiauskas Welterweight  Andrey Piestrayev (EUN)
W 9-4 		 Pepe Reilly (USA)
W 16-5 		 Arkhom Chenglai (THA)
L 6-9 		Did not advance 5
Leonidas Maleckis Light Middleweight  Kabary Salem (EGY)
W 13-6 		 Robin Reid (GBR)
L 3-10 		Did not advance 9
Vidas Markevičius Heavyweight  Alexey Chudinov (EUN)
L 3-7 		Did not advance 17
Gytis Juškevičius Super Heavyweight BYE  David Anyim (KEN)
W RSC-2 		 Richard Igbineghu (NGR)
L KO-2 		Did not advance 5

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Heats Repechages Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Artūras Vieta K-1 500 m 1:41.96 3 Q 1:41.04 2 Q 1:42.09 3 Q 1:42.34 9
K-1 1000 m 3:40.81 2 Q BYE 3:37.54 4 Q 3:46.92 9

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Five cyclists, one man and four women, represented Lithuania in 1992.

Road

Athlete Event Time Rank
Saulius Šarkauskas Men's road race 4:35:56 23
Daiva Čepelienė Women's road race 2:05:03 20
Aiga Zagorska 2:05:03 14
Laima Zilporytė 2:05:03 18

Track

Sprint
Athlete Event Qualification Round 1 Repechage 1 Quarterfinals Classification 5-8 Semifinals Final
Time
Speed (km/h) 		Rank Opposition
Time
Speed (km/h) 		Opposition
Time
Speed (km/h) 		Opposition
Time
Speed (km/h) 		Opposition
Time
Speed (km/h) 		Opposition
Time
Speed (km/h) 		Opposition
Time
Speed (km/h) 		Rank
Rita Razmaitė Women's sprint 12.058 8 Q  Haringa (NED)
 Yan (CHN)
L 		 Yenyukhina (EUN)
L 		did not advance
Pursuit
Athlete Event Qualification Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Time Rank Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Opposition
Time 		Rank
Aiga Zagorska Women's individual pursuit 3:52.450 13 did not advance 13

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Preliminary Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Repechage 1 Repechage 2 Repechage 3 Repechage Final Final / BM
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank
Vladas Burba −95 kg BYE  Theodorus Meijer (NED)
L 0001–0000 		did not advance BYE  Yasuhiro Kai (JPN)
L 0001–0000 		did not advance

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes 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
Points Points Points Points Points
Vladimiras Močialovas Men's 880 660 1204 830 1231 4805 51
Tomas Narkus 1210 694 1224 DNF 1153 4281 62
Gintaras Staškevičius 1060 745 1352 840 1237 5234 15
Gintaras Staškevičius
Vladimiras Močialovas
Tomas Narkus 		Team 3150 2099 3780 1670 3621 14320 15

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Heats Repechage Semifinals C-D Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Ričardas Bukys
Zigmantas Gudauskas 		Coxless pair 6:59.38 4 R 7:01.82 4 FC — 7:03.01 17
Juozas Bagdonas
Einius Petkus
Valdemaras Mačiulskis 		Coxed pair 7:04.41 2 Q BYE — 7:03.89 4 FB 7:04.98 9
Women
Athlete Event Heats Repechage Semifinals C-D Semifinals Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Kristina Poplavskaja Single sculls 8:06.31 4 R 8:01.31 3 Q — 8:05.15 6 FB 8:27.84 11
Violeta Lastakauskaitė
Violeta Bernotaitė 		Coxless pair 8:04.77 4 R 7:52.47 1 Q — 7:30.54 4 FB 7:29.24 10

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Race Net points Final rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Raimondas Šiugždinis
Valdas Balciunas 		470 20 26 27 30 34 15 22 — 176.0 32

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men
Athlete Event Heat Final B Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Nerijus Beiga 100 m breaststroke 1:05.17 36 did not advance
200 m breaststroke 1:21.65 31 did not advance
Raimundas Mažuolis 50 m freestyle 22.77 9 q 22.71 10 did not advance
100 m freestyle 50.17 9 q 50.13 10 did not advance

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Men's Greco-Roman
Athlete Event Elimination Pool Final round
Round 1
Result 		Round 2
Result 		Round 3
Result 		Round 4
Result 		Round 5
Result 		Round 6
Result 		Rank Final round
Result 		Rank
Remigijus Šukevičius −57 kg  Nikolay Dimitrov (BUL)
L 2-4 		 Dennis Hall (USA)
L 3-4 		— 8 did not advance

References

  1. ^ "Lithuania at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
  2. ^ Lithuania at the 1992 Summer Olympics

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics