Sport in Lithuania

The Lithuanian government established the department to manage physical education in the schools and sports administration in the country.

[1]On 19 December 2022 Kaunas was announced as a host city for the 2023 EuroLeague Final Four, the first in Lithuania's sports history.

[2] The Lithuanian national Football team reached its highest rating to date (number 37) in October 2008.

Football players were the first athletes to participate in international competitions (notably, the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris and 1938 World Cup qualifying matches.

As in the rest of Europe, Lithuanians enjoy following the UEFA Champions League, the FIFA World Cup and other world-class Football tournaments.

During last 20 years, the northern city of Šiauliai has become the capital of Lithuanian rugby, with the two strongest teams in Lithuania located there.

The Lithuanian women's rugby sevens national team is progressing from the lower tiers of the European ranks.

In 2010 two Lithuanian sprinters, Martynas Jurgilas and Rytis Sakalauskas, set new national records for the 100-metre dash.

A top woman sprinter, Lina Grinčikaitė, won gold medals at the 2009 Summer Universiade and the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships.

Among the leaders were Zita Urbonaitė and Diana Čepelienė (who took third place in GC) in the Women's Challenge that summer.

There is a strong junior program in cycling for girls in Lithuania, culminating in an annual international race in Panevėžys.

Lithuania's women's track cycling team regularly wins medals at the world and European championships.

Lithuania also has many well-known strongmen (the most successful of whom is Žydrūnas Savickas), and its modern pentathlon athletes have won medals at the Olympics and the World Championships.