Šarūnas Jasikevičius

Šarūnas Jasikevičius

Šarūnas biography

 

 

Šarūnas started playing basketball six years old. Šarūnas wanted to quit basketball for tennis, but his  coach Feliksas Mitkevičius prevented. Sixteen years he has represented Lithuania in him age group, and was invited to Kauno „Žalgiris“. Šarūnas recently played in the European Championship, where his team won the 5-thplace.

Šarūnas family

 

Šarūnas have wife Anna Duoka. They met in favorite Šarūnas bar in Atsens.  In 2011 sptember they received daughter. Šarūnas says, when born his daugther everything turned apside down, becous he less time appointed career, more to family.

Professional clubs which played

 

 

 

1994-1998 „Maryland” (NCAA)

1998-1999 Vilniaus „Lietuvos rytas”

1999-2000 Liublianos „Union Olimpija”

2000-2003 Barselonos „FC Barcelona”

2003-2005 Tel Avivo „Maccabi”

2005-2007 Indianos „Pacers”

2007-2007 Golden State „Warriors”

2007-2010 Atėnų „Panathinaikos”

2010-2010 Vilniaus „Lietuvos rytas”

2010-2011 Stambulo „Fenerbahce Ulker”

Achievements

 

 

Atlanto valstijų lygos čempionas (1994)
Europos kadetų čempionas (1994)
Lancaster-Lebanon lygos čempionas (1994)
Europos jaunimo čempionas (1996)
Goodwill žaidynių bronzos medalio laimėtojas (1998)
Lietuvos (LKL) vicečempionas (1999)
NEBL parodomojo čempionato trečiosios vietos laimėtojas (1999)
LKL Žvaigždžių dienos dalyvis (1999)
Slovėnijos taurės laimėtojas ir naudingiausias žaidėjas (2000)
Slovėnijos vicečempionas (2000)
Slovėnijos lygos žvaigždžių dienos dalyvis (2000)
Slovėnijos lygos sezono naudingiausias žaidėjas (2000)
Sidnėjaus olimpinių žaidynių bronzos medalio laimėtojas (2000)
Ispanijos taurės laimėtojas (2001)
Ispanijos lygos čempionas (2001)
Ispanijos lygos žvaigždžių dienos dalyvis (2001)
Ispanijos taurės vicečempionas (2002)
Ispanijos taurės čempionas (2003)
Eurolygos čempionas (2003)
Ispanijos lygos žvaigždžių dienos dalyvis (2003)
Ispanijos lygos čempionas ir naudingiausias finalo žaidėjas (2003)
Europos čempionas, naudingiausias čempionato žaidėjas, bei nominuotas į simbolinį čempionato penketuką (2003)
Geriausias Lietuvos sportininkas (2003)
Izraelio taurės laimėtojas (2004)
Eurolygos čempionas (2004)
Nominuotas į pirmąją eurolygos komandą (2004)
Izraelio lygos čempionas (2004)
Izraelio taurės čempionas (2005)
Eurolygos čempionas ir naudingiausias žaidėjas (2005)
Nominuotas į pirmąją eurolygos komandą (2005)
Izraelio lygos čempionas (2005)
Naudingiausias Izraelio lygos žaidėjas (2005)
Nominuotas į sombolinį geriausių Izraelio lygos žaidėjų penketuką (2005)
NBA žvaigždžių dienos dalyvis (2006)
Europos čempionato bronzos medalio laimėtojas (2007)
Graikijos taurės laimėtojas (2008)
Graikijos lygos čempionas (2008)
Graikijos lygos žvaigždžių dienos dalyvis (2008)
Graikijos taurės laimėtojas (2009)
Eurolygos čempionas (2009)
Graikijos lygos žvaigždžių dienos dalyvis (2009)
Graikijos lygos čempionas (2009)
Graikijos taurės vicečempionas (2010)
Graikijos lygos čempionas (2010)
Turkijos taurės laimėtojas (2011)
Turkijos lygos čempionas (2011)

 

 

Amputee Football

*What is amputee football?

Amputee football is when you lose a leg or arm, and become amputee, it‘s doesn‘t have  to stop you from enjoing what you love  to do. Tree of the players  each have one leg and the fourth player , the goalkeeper, has one arm. The rules of the game similar to five-a-side football, except of course there are only four players on the pich for each team. This first National Amputee Football Cup was played in 2003 whith six teams from all over England.

*Can you play football game with one foot?

Amputee footbal is exciting to watch. Tyahe players in all the teams at the National Cup are as fast, skilful and physical as in  any similar, non-disabled, five-a-side tournament and all the matches entertained the crowd. One of the people who watched was Rick Hofmann, Executive Director of the American Amputee Soccer Association, who had flow in just for  the day  to watch the competition. Hse was impressed and said: I‘ll use what i learned here  to try  to start an American programme. Maybe we can have atransatlantic 4 v 4 tournament before too long.

Author Monika Zubavičiūtė

Sport for disabled people

Sport for Disabled People (1990 – 1994)

1990 March 11, After the restoration of Lithuanian independence was essential changes in the Lithuanian sport, touching and disabled sports. Began a long, complex and difficult process. Started to reform legal framework, reorganized the medical, social, educational and vocational rehabilitation. Restructuring in the implementation of these bases has the following laws:
Ø 1990 in July. – Republic of Lithuania invalid advocacy.
Ø 1991 November 28, -Republic ofLithuania Law on Social Integration of disabled persons. This law has been placed in the disabledsociety based on equal rights: to protect the rights of the disabled and to provide them equal opportunities with other members of the public to help solve personal and social lives.

1990 was founded an independent Lithuanian Disabled Sports Federation (LISF) and 1992 LISF was adopted at the International Disabled Sports Organization (isodose), the International Cerebral Palsy and Recreation Association (CP-ISRA), the International Stop Mondevilio wheelchair sports federation (ISMWSF) a full-fledged member.

 

disabled sports club inLithuania:

 

  • Friendship „

  • „Phoenix”

 And many others


 

 

EuroBasket 2011

krepsinio kamuolys

EuroBasket 2011 m.

EuroBasket 2011 was the 37th men’s European Basketball Championship, held by FIBA Europe. The competition was hosted by Lithuania. This was the second time Eurobasket had been held in Lithuania, the country having also hosted the 1939 championship. FIBA Europe asserted that Lithuania managed to organize the best European championship in its history. The top two teams are guaranteed spots at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

 

Eurobasket 2011 was the largest sporting event in the history of the Baltic States both in terms of the number of national teams (24), matches (90)and that of spectators (158 000 tickets sold with most tickets valid for 3 separate matches.)

 

Spain won the title for the second consecutive tournament after defeating France 98–85 in the final.

 

Venues and attendances

The group matches were played in four arenas, namely Alytus ArenaŠiauliai ArenaCido Arena in Panevėžys and an arena in Klaipėda. The second stage matches were played at the Siemens Arena in the capital Vilnius and the playoffs at the new Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas.

 

All tickets were sold for matches in which Lithuania played in a matter of several hours after the start of sale. Other tickets were also sold out in advance for all venues except for Alytus (75% of available tickets sold in total). However the FIBA policy of selling tickets for 3 games at once meant that in some cases the sold-out arenas were not full as some fans would choose to go to only some of the games their ticket entitled them to. This FIBA policy was altered in Panevėžys where there were separate tickets for the games Lithuania played.

 

 

Teams

It was first decided that 16 teams would participate in Eurobasket 2011, however FIBA Europe decided on 5 September 2010, in a meeting in Istanbul, that there would be 24 teams in the tournament, after the Qualifying Round was concluded.

 

 

Official song

Lithuania is the first host country of EuroBasket to have an official EuroBasket song. A song Celebrate basketball written by Marijonas Mikutavičius and performed by MiaMantas Jankavičius and Marijonas Mikutavičius was chosen by a televoting in Lithuania. There are two versions of the song – in Lithuanian and English. Later, another version was added – „Nebetyli sirgaliai” (lit. The Fans are no Longer Quiet).

 

 

Groups

 

Group A was: Spain, Lithuania, Turkey, Great Britain, Poland, Portugal.

Group B was: France, Serbia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia.

Group C was: Macedonia, Greece, Finland, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro.

Group D was: Russia, Slovenia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Belgium.

Giedrius Titenis biography

                                                    Giedrius Titenis

 

 

 

 

Giedrius Titenis (born in 1989, 21 July Anykščiai) – Lithuanianswimmer and Olympic team member.

 

Height: 193 cm.

Weight: 85 kg.

Education: Madona Baranauskas Secondary School Grade 12 student.

 

 

 

 

achievements:

In 2005 VIII EJOF – 3rd place (Italy, 200 m breaststroke), 100 m breaststroke – 6th place;

2006 I World Junior Championship – 3rd place (Rio de Janeiro, 200 m breaststroke), 50 m butterfly – 9th place;

In 2007 World Championship – 12th place (Melbourne, 100 m breaststroke), the European Youth Championships – 3rd place (Belgium, 100 m breaststroke);

In 2008 European Championships – 25 place (the Netherlands, 100 m breaststroke).

 

 

Giedrius Titenis swimmer dreams of Olympics. But the extravagant appearance eleven  – what it looks when a college freshman?

With swimmers Giedrius Titeniu (Zilvinas Ovsiukas coach) spoke immediately after the last one took place last year, honoring the athletes’ sports department. Seventeen Anykštėnai Zydrunas Savickas and Vytautas Janušaitis Society ended up accidentally – Autumn G. Titenis World Junior championship, called at 200 m breaststroke, winning the bronze medal. „The coaches had expected such a result is the same … Well, everything went well,” – the match inRio de Janeiro (Brazil) recalled swimmer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOB

– Is this the kind of investment in the future? After finishing the work the sawmill to swim?

– Sure, why not? I like to work there, moreover, well aware that not transit forever. Businesses are discovering the other powerful features, there is also a kind of embarrassment. If you have no experience of that swimming pool will be able to compete in other ways

 

„We have a family business. I think that sawmill work even helps – it gives a chance to take a break from swimming and do something else. Businesses are doing little