| Aurimas Valaitis | |
| Fullname: | Aurimas Valaitis |
| Strokes: | Breaststroke |
| Club: | Centras Kaunas |
| Birth Date: | 22 April 1988 |
| Birth Place: | Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Height: | 1.760NaN0 |
| Weight: | 650NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Aurimas Valaitis (born 22 April 1988) is a Lithuanian former swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] He beat a 29-second barrier to earn a bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2006 European Junior Swimming Championships in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, with his personal best of 28.98.[2]
Valaitis qualified for the men's 100 m breaststroke, as Lithuania's youngest swimmer (aged 16), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:04.71 from the Dutch Open Swim Cup in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[3] He challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including 15-year-old 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.[4] [5]