Facts and figures
10 sports, 87 events, and 1709 athletes from 47 nations.
Most medals won (from a total of 40 teams) by: 1. Great Britain – 42 (24, 10, 8), 2. Russia – 27 (12, 8, 7), 3. Romania – 23 (8, 8, 7), … 14. Lithuania – 2 (2, 0, 0).
Lithuania in the Olympic Days
In this event, Lithuania was represented by 27 athletes – swimmers, track and field athletes, cyclists, tennis players, and jukodas.
Track and field athletes Agnė Visockaitė and Mindaugas Pukštas both won gold medals: Agnė won the 200 m event, while Mindaugas was the first to finish in the 2000 m event.
Swimmer Eugenijus Rakitinas was 4th, judoka Giedrius Jančiauskas – 5th, and cyclist Valerijus Novikovas – 6th.
Plaukikas Eugenijus Rakitinas liko ketvirtas, dziudo imtynininkas Giedrius Jančiauskas penktas, dviratininkas Valerijus Novikovas – šeštas.