| Danas Rapšys | |
| Nationality: | Lithuanian |
| Strokes: | Backstroke, freestyle |
| Club: | Panevėžio Žemyna |
| Coach: | Ina Šimeliūnaitė-Paipelienė |
| Birth Date: | 1995 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Panevėžys, Lithuania |
| Height: | 1.86 m |
| Weight: | 80 kg |
Danas Rapšys (in Lithuanian pronounced as /ˈdaːnɐs rɐpˈɕiːs/; born 21 May 1995) is a Lithuanian swimmer. He is a two-time Olympian, a multiple-time Lithuanian record holder in the men's backstroke, freestyle and butterfly, and a double swimming champion at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan. Rapšys is also a member of Panevežys Žemyna Club, and is coached and trained by Ina Paipelienė.
In 2013 he became a European Junior champion. At the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Rapšys competed in 4×100 metre mixed medley with Rūta Meilutytė, Povilas Strazdas, Eva Gliožerytė. During 4×100 metre mixed medley heats, they finished third with a time of 3:55.74 seconds and qualified to the final. At the 4×100 metre mixed medley final, Meilutyte, Rapšys, Strazdas and Gliožerytė finished second and won silver medal with a time of 3:52.52 seconds. In the 2013 World Aquatics Championships he reached semifinals in the 200m backstroke swimming.[1]
See also: Swimming at the 2017 Summer Universiade. At the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan, Rapšys competed in four events: the 100 metre backstroke, 200 metre freestyle, 200 metre backstroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay.
In his first event, 100 m backstroke, Rapšys achieved bronze medal, with a time of 54:17, but narrowly missed out of the silver medal by five hundredths of a second (0.05) behind Japan's Kosuke Hagino.[2] Rapšys won gold medal in the 200 metre freestyle finals, with a time of 1:45.75, and broke the national Lithuanian swimming record.[3] He also competed in the 200 m backstroke final where he sat in 7th through the halfway point, but made big moves on the back half, including a 28.87 on the final 50, to pull ahead of the field for gold in 1:56.52.[4]
At the 2022 World Short Course Championships, contested in December at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia, Rapšys won the bronze medal in the 400 metre freestyle with a time of 3:36.26, which was less than two seconds behind gold medalist Kieran Smith of the United States.[5] [6] In the 200 metre freestyle on the sixth and final day of competition, he ranked fifth in the preliminaries with a time of 1:42.21 before placing seventh in the final with a time of 1:41.74.[7] [8]
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| Meet | 50 free | 200 free | 400 free | 50 back | 100 back | 200 back | 100 fly | 200 medley | 4×100 free | 4×200 free | 4×100 medley | 4×100 mixed medley | |
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| Junior level | |||||||||||||
| 25th | 7th | 10th | 8th | ||||||||||
| 4th | |||||||||||||
| 7th | 5th | ||||||||||||
| Senior level | |||||||||||||
| 35th | 35th | 30th | |||||||||||
| 25th | 14th | 13th | |||||||||||
| 22nd | 5th | 7th | 7th | ||||||||||
| 28th | 19th | 12th | |||||||||||
| 5th | |||||||||||||
| 24th | 21st | 14th | |||||||||||
| 10th | 8th | 17th | |||||||||||
| 7th | |||||||||||||
| 29th | 13th | 12th | 4th | ||||||||||
| 8th | 4th | 15th | 11th | ||||||||||
| 4th | 9th | ||||||||||||
| 8th | 13th | 33rd | 15th | ||||||||||
| 14th | 18th | 19th | |||||||||||
| 5th | 10th | 11th | |||||||||||
Rapšys was disqualified in the final.
Team Lithuania was disqualified in the preliminaries.
| Meet | 100 free | 200 free | 400 free | 50 back | 100 back | 200 back | 200 fly | 100 medley | 200 medley | 4×50 free | 4×200 free | 4×50 medley | 4×100 medley | |
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| 37th | DNS | 27th | 18th | |||||||||||
| 56th | 36th | 39th | 23rd | |||||||||||
| 18th | 30th | 11th | 5th | 6th | ||||||||||
| 13th | 9th | DSQ | 7th | 11th | ||||||||||
| 21st | 10th | 4th | 21st | 6th | ||||||||||
| 18th | 22nd | 12th | 5th | 8th | ||||||||||
| 20th | 11th | 9th | ||||||||||||
| 16th | 14th | 9th | 7th | |||||||||||
| DNS | DNS | DNS | ||||||||||||
| 7th | 8th | 7th | ||||||||||||
| 7th | ||||||||||||||