| Noc: | LTU |
| Nocname: | Lithuanian National Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Winter Olympics |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Website: | |
| Location: | Sochi |
| Competitors: | 9 |
| Sports: | 5 |
| Flagbearer: | Deividas Stagniūnas (opening)[1] Agnė Sereikaitė (closing)[2] |
| Gold: | 0 |
| Silver: | 0 |
| Bronze: | 0 |
| Appearances: | auto |
| App Begin Year: | 1928 |
| See also: | (1900–1912) (1952–1988) |
Lithuania competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014. The team consists of nine athletes competing in five different sports. The nine athletes mark the most athletes the country has ever qualified for a Winter Olympics.[3]
On 19 December 2013 in Brussels, Belgium Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė stated that she won't go to the Games due to Russia’s politics and said "Amid the current situation where I see human rights violations, as well as an attitude towards and treatment of Eastern Partners, including Lithuania, and the economic sanctions that have been applied against Lithuania, I do not see a political possibility of going to the Sochi Games".[4]
See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. According to the final quota allocation released on January 20, 2014, Lithuania has two athletes in qualification positions.[5]
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Rokas Zaveckas | 1:36.06 | 70 | 1:36.98 | 62 | 3:13.04 | 63 | |
| align=left rowspan=2 | Ieva Januškevičiūtė | 1:36.79 | 71 | |||||
See main article: Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Based on their performance at the 2012 and 2013 Biathlon World Championships Lithuania qualified 1 man and 1 woman.[6]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Misses | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left rowspan=3 | Men's sprint | 26:26.2 | 2 (0+2) | 48 | |
| Men's pursuit | 36:49.8 | 3 (1+0+0+2) | 40 | ||
| Men's individual | 52.38.9 | 3 (0+0+0+3) | 23 | ||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Women's sprint | 23:18.6 | 2 (1+1) | 51 | |
| Women's pursuit | 34:07.1 | 2 (0+0+0+2) | 43 | ||
| Women's individual | 49:32.5 | 2 (1+1+0+0) | 42 |
See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics. According to the final quota allocation released on January 20, 2014, Lithuania has two athletes in qualification position.[5]
| Athlete | Event | Classical | Freestyle | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Deficit | Rank | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Vytautas Strolia | Men's 15 km classical | 45:08.0 | +6:38.3 | 70 | |||
| Men's 30 km skiathlon | 40:54.7 | 65 | 39:03.4 | 67 | 1:20:37.2 | +12.21.8 | 67 | |
| Ingrida Ardišauskaitė | Women's 10 km classical | 36:52.1 | +8:34.3 | 67 | ||||
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Vytautas Strolia | Men's sprint | 3:55.48 | 70 | Did not advance | ||||||
| Ingrida Ardišauskaitė | Women's sprint | 2:55.24 | 62 | Did not advance | ||||||
See main article: Figure skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics. The Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė had initially refused to give citizenship to ice dancer Deividas Stagniūnas' partner Isabella Tobias.[7] This would be second time that Stagniūnas would be unable to participate in the Olympics because of his partner's citizenship requests,[8] hadn't president decided to give citizenship to Tobias on 2 December 2013.[9] In 2013 World championships Tobias and Stagniūnas qualified for the Olympics.
See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Lithuania qualified 1 female athlete for the Olympics during World Cup 3 & 4 in November 2013.[10] This will mark Lithuania's debut in the sport.
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Agnė Sereikaitė | 500 m | 45.356 | 3 | Did not advance | 24 | ||||
| 1000 m | Did not advance | |||||||||
| 1500 m | 2:21.900 | 3 Q | 2:20.398 | 6 | Did not advance | 16 | ||||