Danas Rapšys
Danas Rapšys (Lithuanian pronunciation: [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]
2017 season[]
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]
Personal bests[]
- As of 12 August 2019
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International championships (50 m)[]
| Meet | 200 free | 400 free | 100 back | 200 back | 100 fly | 200 IM | 4×100 free | 4×200 free | 4×100 medley |
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| EC 2012 | 35th | 35th | 30th | ||||||
| WC 2013 | 25th | 14th | 13th | ||||||
| EC 2014 | 22nd | 5th | 7th | 7th | |||||
| WC 2015 | 28th | 19th | 12th | ||||||
| EC 2016 |  |
5th | |||||||
| OG 2016 | 24th | 21st | 14th | ||||||
| WC 2017 | 10th | 8th | 17th | ||||||
| EC 2018 |  |
29th | 13th | 12th | 4th | ||||
| WC 2019 | 8th[a] | 4th | 15th | 11th | |||||
| EC 2020 | 4th | |
9th | ||||||
| OG 2020 | 8th | 13th | 33rd | 15th[b] |
References[]
External links[]
- Danas Rapšys at FINA
- Danas Rapšys at Olympics.com
- Danas Rapšys at OlympicChannel.com (archived)
- Danas Rapšys at Olympedia
- Danas Rapšys at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Danas Rapšys at the Lietuvos tautinis olimpinis komitetas (in Lithuanian)
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Lithuanian male butterfly swimmers
- Lithuanian male backstroke swimmers
- Sportspeople from Panevėžys
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Lithuania
- Universiade medalists in swimming
- Lithuanian male freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Universiade gold medalists for Lithuania
- Universiade bronze medalists for Lithuania
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
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