Aurimas Valaitis

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Aurimas Valaitis
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Full nameAurimas Valaitis
National teamFlag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania
Born (1988-04-22) 22 April 1988 (age 35)
Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
ClubCentras Kaunas
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Lithuania
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2006 Palma 50 m breaststroke

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]

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