2012 Summer Olympics medal table MedalNameSport Event GoldRūta MeilutytėSwimming GoldLaura Asadauskaitė Modern pentathlon SilverJevgenijus Šuklinas Canoeing BronzeAleksandr Kazakevič Wrestling BronzeEvaldas Petrauskas Boxing

Lithuania's 15-year-old Olympic gold medallist at the London Olympics Rūta Meilutytė. 2 European records at the World Championship in Turkey in December, 2012.

Lithuanian Basketball Team Achievements Olimpic Games AppearancesMedals 6 (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012) Bronze: 1992, 1996, 2000 FIBA World Cup 3 (1998, 2006, 2010)Bronze: 2010 EuroBasket 12 (1937, 1939, 1995–2013)Gold: 1937, 1939, 2003 Silver: 1995 Bronze: 2007

This is our basketball team

Lithuanian Basketball History Lithuanian men competed in two of the pre-war EuroBasket competitions for the European championship. They won both the EuroBasket 1937 and EuroBasket 1939 competitions. The 1939 team was led by Pranas Lubinas, who helped popularize basketball in the country and was called the "Grandfather of Lithuanian Basketball".

Having been part of the Soviet Union, Lithuanian players frequently formed the core of the Soviet national team. This was especially so for the 1988 Olympic basketball gold medal-winning team which got most of its scoring from four Lithuanians: Valdemaras Chomičius, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Šarūnas Marčiulionis and Arvydas Sabonis.

After the restoration of Lithuanian independence in 1990, the national team was resurrected. Lithuania won bronze medals in the first three Olympics – 1992, 1996, and 2000, finished fourth in 2004 and 2008, and eighth in 2012 Olympics.

World Record The Official Opening Ceremony of EuroBasket 2011 was marked by a new world record of the kind that can only be produced in Lithuania. More than 55,000 fans bounced a basketball simultaneously, for a period of five minutes, in six different cities accross the country.

Basketball – Second Lithuanian Religion. Lithuanian Fans.