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 in

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, 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

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, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.71 from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in

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. He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 15-year-old

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of Vietnam. He raced to fourth place by 0.12 of a second behind New Zealand's

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, 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.

References

1988 births Living people Lithuanian male breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Lithuania Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Kaunas {{Lithuania-swimming-bio-stub