Sportin Lithuania is governed by the Physical Education and Sports Department following the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1990. The Lithuanian government established the department to manage physical education in the schools and sports administration in the country. Over the next few years, Lithuanian sports organizations established membership in international governing bodies. Lithuania participated in the Winter Olympics in Albertville and has participated in every Winter and Summer Olympics since.
The Lithuania men's national basketball team represents Lithuania in international basketball competitions. They are controlled by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, the governing body for basketball in Lithuania. Despite Lithuania's small size, with a population of less than 3 million, the country's devotion to basketball has made them a traditional force of the sport in Europe.
Paulius Jankūnas is a Lithuanian former professional basketball player who mainly played for Žalgiris Kaunas of the Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL) and the EuroLeague. He was also a member of the senior Lithuanian national team. Jankūnas played at either center or power forward, with power forward being his main position. He earned an All-EuroLeague Second Team selection in 2018.
Lithuania competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China from August 8 to August 24, 2008.
Deividas Stagniūnas is a Lithuanian former ice dancer. With Isabella Tobias, he is the 2011 Skate America bronze medalist and placed in the top ten at two European Championships. They represented Lithuania at the 2014 Winter Olympics, where Stagniūnas was the flagbearer.
Mariya Stadnik is a Ukrainian-born Azerbaijani female wrestler who won four Olympic medals, two World Championship and ten European Championship.
Mindaugas Griškonis is a Lithuanian rower. Competing in the single sculls he won six medals at the European and world championships between 2007 and 2015, including three European gold medals. He placed eighth at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, before getting his first Olympic medal in the double scull event in 2016, a silver with Saulius Ritter.
Victoria Yuryevna Zhilinskayte is a Russian handball player for HC Kuban Krasnodar and the Russian national handball team.
Isabella Tobias is an Israeli retired ice dancer who competed for both Georgia, Lithuania, and Israel.
BC Juventus, also known as Uniclub Casino Juventus for sponsorship reasons, is a Lithuanian professional basketball club based in Utena, Lithuania. Founded in 1999, the club currently plays in the Lithuanian Basketball League.
Saulius Ritter is a Lithuanian rower, best known for winning a silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and a gold medal at the 2011 European Rowing Championships.
Mindaugas Sadauskas is a Lithuanian swimmer who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He is a multiple-time Lithuanian champion, who represented his country at the FINA World Championships, LEN European Championships and other international competition. Sadauskas also represented Lithuania at the London Olympic Games in 2012. He has seven national level records at the moment. Sadauskas is also a member of the swimming team for SMU Mustangs at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Sadauskas achieved multiple gold medals at the Conference USA while studying at the SMU.
Mindaugas is a Lithuanian masculine given name and may refer to the following individuals:
Raminta Dvariškytė is a Lithuanian swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events. She represented her nation Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed multiple Lithuanian championship titles and two national records in both the breaststroke and medley relay events.
Mindaugas Ežerskis is a three-time Olympic wrestler from Lithuania, who competed for the heavyweight division and wrestling coach. He also won the bronze medal for his category at the 2005 European Wrestling Championships in Varna, Bulgaria, and silver at the 2007 World Wrestling Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, losing out to Georgia's Ramaz Nozadze.
Yannick Szczepaniak is an amateur French Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's super heavyweight category. He is also a two-time Olympian, a ten-time national wrestling champion, and a member of ASSO Sarreguemines Lutte, being coached and trained by Patrice Mourier.
Haji Aliyev, is an Azerbaijani freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 61 kg division in the 2014 European Wrestling Championships and won the gold medal after beating Bekkhan Goygereyev of Russia.
Svajūnas Adomaitis is a retired amateur Lithuanian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's featherweight category. He scored a ninth-place finish in the 55-kg division at the 2003 World Wrestling Championships in Créteil, France, and later represented his nation Lithuania at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout his sporting career, Adomaitis trained as a member of the wrestling squad for the Lithuanian Olympic Sports Center under head coach Jonas Sabutis.
Lithuania competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Games in the post-Soviet era and ninth overall in Summer Olympic history.
Lithuania men's national goalball team is the men's national team of Lithuania. Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. It takes part in international competitions.
