Personal information | |
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Born | Ignalina, Lithuania | 31 March 1995
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) |
Sport | |
Country | Lithuania |
Sport | Cross-country skiing |
Tautvydas Strolia (born 31 March 1995) is a Lithuanian cross-country skier.
Strolia represented Lithuania at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021. He finished 84th in men's sprint, failed to qualify for individual 15 km race and was part of Lithuania's relay and sprint teams. [1]
Strolia was selected to represent Lithuania at the 2022 Winter Olympics. [2]
His father Vytautas Strolia is a former Lithuanian national champion in biathlon. [3] His older brother Mantas Strolia represented Lithuania at the 2010 and 2018 Olympics. [4]
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.
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Strolia is a Lithuanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Tautvydas is a two-stemmed pre-Christian Lithuanian name: taut='tauta'="land, nation, kindred, tribe" + vyd='vysti', vydėti, with the meaning "too see", as in "to understand". The name Vytautas is combined from the same stems. Notable people with the name include: