Lithuania at the 1924 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:LTU
Nocname:Lithuanian National Olympic Committee
Games:Summer Olympics
Year:1924
Website: 
Location:Paris
Competitors:13
Sports:2
Gold:0
Silver:0
Bronze:0
Appearances:auto
App Begin Year:1924
See also: (1900–1912)
(1952–1988)

Lithuania competed at the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. On Olympic application Lithuania listed seven sports (boxing, cycling, fencing, football, wrestling, gymnastics, and shooting), but sent athletes only for football and cycling.[1]

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Isakas Anolikas (a Lithuanian Jew) and Juozas Vilpišauskas participated in the individual time trial over 188 km. Due to mechanical malfunctions both athletes did not finish the road race.[2]

Road cycling

CyclistEventFinal
ResultRank
Isakas AnolikasTime trialalign=center colspan=2Did not finish
Juozas Vilpišauskasalign=center colspan=2Did not finish

Football

See main article: article and Football at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Due to lack of funds and general disorganization the team was assembled the last minute. It lacked official documents to travel to Paris, professional uniforms, training and practice.[3] Hastily assembled men did not have time to play a single game before departing for the Olympics. The team doubted if they could arrive on time and asked to postpone the match.[4] The train journey from Kaunas to Paris took about 40 hours and athletes arrived at 2 am, only 12 hours before the first game against Switzerland, the ultimate silver winner.[4] The match was lost 0–9.[5] Lithuania was eliminated from further competition with final 17th place.

Team
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Round 1

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 80 Metų pasaulio olimpinėje šeimoje . Pranas . Rimša . Penki Kontinentai . 2008-08-22 . lt .
  2. Web site: Cycling at the 1924 Paris Summer Games: Men's Road Race, Individual . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132119/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1924/CYC/mens-road-race-individual.html . dead . 2020-04-18 . Sports Reference . 2008-08-22.
  3. Į olimpiadą – be kamuolio . . Romas . Poderys . 321 . 28384 . 2008-07-26 . 1392-7639. lt.
  4. Book: Saulis, Vytautas . Lietuvos futbolas 1922–1997. Gediminas Kalinauskas . 1997 . Vilnius . Diemedis . 9986-23-034-9 . 9–11. lt.
  5. Web site: Olympic Football Tournament Paris 1924 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100614224907/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=197020/matches/match=32293/report.html . dead . June 14, 2010 . FIFA . 2008-08-22.