Aurimas Valaitis (born 22 April 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
The 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from July 6 to July 9, 2006, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. The age groups for this event were girls born in 1990 or 1991 and boys born in 1988 or 1989.
Medal table
Medal summary
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in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Athens
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, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.71 from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,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.