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The Lithuanian, who fought in selection group A, threw the tool on the first attempt at 65.94m. It was only 6 cm below the final norm, which is 66 m.
Still, the athlete decided to stay in the sector and made another attempt. During it, the puck flew at 65.07. The third pitch was unsuccessful, but A. Gudžius easily reached the final with the second result.
Photo by Cyprus Streimikis (LTOK) / Performance by Andrius Gujius
It is true that the competition from Group B still remains.
Saturday’s final will include pitchers who have reached the 66-meter mark or 12 of the top 16 athletes.
World champion and planetary ranking leader Daniel Daniel Stahl made the final standard on the first attempt (66.12) and did not continue the selection.
He is the only pitcher who, in the group A competition, managed to surpass the final rule and surpass A.Gudžiai.
A.Gudžius is the 2017 and 2018 world champion of Europe. At the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the Lithuanian ranked twelfth with 60.66m.
This season, the athlete dropped the longest drive to 68.62 m and his personal record was 69.59 m.
Adrijus Glebauskas, 26, also made his Olympic Games debut on Friday.
In the high jump selection competition, the Lithuanian surpassed the height of 2.17 m on the first attempt, but the 2.21 m poster did not obey on any of the three attempts.
A. Glebauskas did not reach the final at his debut Olympics.
A. Glebauskas recently hit a career record when he jumped to 2.30.
Thirteen athletes reached the final, jumping 2.28.
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