Aurimas Valaitis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Aurimas Valaitis

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1988

Place of Birth: Kaunas, Kaunas County

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Aurimas Valaitis

  • Aurimas Valaitis (born April 22, 1988) is a Lithuanian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.
  • 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.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.
  • 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.

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