Aurimas Valaitis (born 22 April 1988) is a Lithuanian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He beat a 29-second barrier to earn a bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with his personal best of 28.98.[2]
Valaitis qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke, as Lithuania's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.71 from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 15-year-old Nguyen Huu Viet of Vietnam. He raced to fourth place by 0.12 of a second behind New Zealand's Ben Labowitch, breaking his personal best of 1:04.11. Valaitis failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed thirty-eighth overall on the first day of preliminaries.[4][5]
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^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
^Rusticus, Oene (9 July 2006). . Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 1 March 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
^"Swimming – Men's 100m Breaststroke Startlist (Heat 3)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
^"Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 3". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
^Whitten, Phillip (14 August 2004). . Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
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