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The European Indoor Athletics Championships kicked off in Torun, Poland, on Thursday. Three Lithuanians also competed on the first day.
Adrijus Glebauskas Y Juozas Baikštys participated in the high jump qualifiers. For A. Glebauskas, they were successful. On the second attempt, the Lithuanian exceeded the height of 2.21 m, shared 4-5 places in the general classification and reached the final, which will be attended by 8 athletes. In qualifying, exactly 8 athletes covered the height of 2.21 m, so there was no need to lift the poster to a height of 2.25 m. J.Baikštys was 14th with a result of 2.10 m and did not reach the final.
Belarusian favorite was never wrong in qualifying Maxim did not follow and italian Gianmarco Tamberi.
Simas Bertašius In the first 1,500m qualifying race he led the distance part, then he was among the outsiders, and on the last lap he picked up the pace again and ran sixth with the best result of the Lithuanian season – 3 min. 42.17 seconds The Spanish went straight to the final Jesus Gomezas (3: 40,75) and a pole Michalas Rozmysas (3: 40.92). In the final ranking, S.Bertašius was ranked 25th out of 51 athletes and was not among the 12 finalists. It was the first qualifying race that was the slowest of all.
Execution of Simas Bertašius:
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Adrijus Glebauskas hopes come true: the height of 2.21 m was exceeded on the second attempt:
Updated at 21:00 In the first attempt, A. Glebauskas failed to overcome the height of 2.21 m.
Updated 8:51 PM J.Baikštys was the only one who did not exceed the height of 2.16 m, making it 14º.
Juozas Baikštys did not reach the final – and on the third attempt he did not reach the height of 2.16 m:
Updated 8:45 PM The situation for J.Baikštis is complicated: his two attempts to overcome the height of 2.16 m were unsuccessful.
Successful jump of Adrijus Glebauskas at a height of 2.16 m:
Updated at 8:30 pm Both Lithuanians successfully started the selection of high jumps: in the first attempts they overcame a height of 2.10 m.
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