Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships

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Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships
SportIndoor track and field
Founded1948, 1990
CountryLithuania

The Lithuanian Indoor Athletics Championships (Lithuanian: Lietuvos uždarų patalpų lengvosios atletikos čempionatas) is an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Athletic Federation of Lithuania, which serves as the national championship for the sport in Lithuania. Recent competitions were held in Klaipėda. The first championships was held in 1948, but as the country was subsumed into the Soviet Union after World War II, the Soviet Athletics Championships served as the national event during this period.[1] After the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania, a national Lithuanian championships was restored and held in 1990.[2]

Events

The following athletics events feature as standard on the Lithuanian Indoor Championships programme:

Former events that were held at the championships include sprints over 30 m, 35 m, and 50 metres, 10,000 m racewalking, and the 4 × 200 metres relay.

References

  1. ^ Soviet Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
  2. ^ Lithuanian Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-22.

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