Olympic Games

One judoka - practitioner of judo - will be part of Lithuania's team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Two boxers will be among the 68 Lithuanian athletes who will be competing for Olympic medals at the Rio de Janeiro Games this summer. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

Lithuania's national basketball team will have to do without one of the country's best players Donatas Motiejūnas in Rio Olympics. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The Lithuanian Olympic team is leaving for Rio de Janeiro. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

The Lithuanian team in this year's Olympic Games includes at least 68 athletes who will compete in 16 different sports. Two of them will represent the country on the courts of tennis and badminton.

The Lithuanian team will include 68 athletes who will fight for a medal in the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After meeting the marathon runners and race walkers, we'd like to introduce you to Lithuania's athletes who will compete in the Olympic track and field events. To r...

The Lithuanian athletes are working hard in their preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Among the 67 Lithuanian athletes who will compete in the games are seven walkers who will take part in the races for 20 and 50 kilometres. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthl...

With only months left until the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Lithuania Tribune introduces some of the women and men who will represent Lithuania in the most important sports event of the year.

Lithuanian basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis, who is the president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, has been the face of the launch of German retail chain Lidl in the country - but that may prove a problem ahead of the Olympic Games.

Arvydas Sabonis, the legendary basketball center, has been reelected to head the Lithuanian Basketball Federation for another term.

Lithuania's top-ranking tennis player Ričardas Berankis has secured a ticket to Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

Lithuanian athletes are expected to win at least two medals at Rio de Janeiro Olympic games this summer, says the country's National Olympic Committee president Daina Gudzinevičiūtė.

Viena svarbiausių dienų Lietuvos istorijoje buvo originaliai paminėta jaunimo žiemos olimpinėse žaidynėse, kurios vasario 12-21 d. vyksta Lilehameryje (Norvegija).

The latest Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) world rankings were published on Monday, and 25-year-old Lithuanian Ričardas Berankis dropped 11 positions and took the 96th place in the world.

Lithuanian swimmer Rūta Meilutytė is to return to competition next week swimming in a 2016 Euro Meet in Luxembourg on January 29-31. Meilutytė will compete for the first time since she got an elbow injury in 2015.

The Lithuanian Swimming Federation (LPF) is leaving the Lithuanian Union of Sports Federations (LSFS), saying that it fails to advance the interests of sports.

Lithuania's basketball legend Šarūnas Marčiulonis, who started his career in BC Statyba in 1981, and managed to leave for the NBA despite the Iron Curtain, will join the FIBA‘s hall of fame, The Denver Post reports.

He is a policeman and a hero in Germany. But not because of his police duty, but because of his second profession - a luger. He is the youngest ever luger to win the world championships at the age of 18.

Daina Gudzinevičiūtė, the Olympic shooting champion, is one of the Lithuanian sports legends and there is no doubt in it. Today, at age of 50, she is the president of the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee, having beaten another Lithuanian sports legend, Virgilius Alekna, for the position.

Ieva Januškevičiūtė, 20-year-old Lithuanian alpine skier, made her dream to take part in winter Olympic Games come true. At the age of 18, she broke Lithuanian national record of women's alpine skiing FIS points. In 2013 she finished 81st in the Giant Slalom event in the World championships, and in ...