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.
2013 season
[edit]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
[edit]2017 Summer Universiade
[edit]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]
2022 season
[edit]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]
Personal bests
[edit]- As of 12 August 2019
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International championships (50 m)
[edit]| 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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| EJC 2012 | 25th | 7th |  |
10th | 8th | — | ||||||
| EJC 2013 |  |
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4th | |||||||||
| WJC 2013 | 7th | |
5th |
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| Senior level | ||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||
| WUG 2017 | |
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7th | — | |||||||
| EC 2018 | |
29th | 13th | 12th | 4th | |||||||
| WC 2019 | 8th[a] | 4th | 15th | 11th | ||||||||
| EC 2020 | 4th | |
9th | |||||||||
| OG 2020 | 8th | 13th | — | 33rd | 15th[b] | |||||||
| WC 2022 | 14th | 18th | 19th[b] | |||||||||
| EC 2022 | 5th | 10th | 11th | |||||||||
International championships (25 m)
[edit]| 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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| EC 2012 | 37th | DNS | 27th | 18th | — | — | |||||||
| WC 2012 | 56th | 36th | 39th | 23rd | |||||||||
| EC 2013 | 18th | 30th | 11th | 5th | 6th | — | — | ||||||
| WC 2014 | 13th | 9th | DSQ | 7th | 11th | ||||||||
| EC 2015 | 21st | 10th | 4th | 21st | — | 6th | — | ||||||
| WC 2016 | 18th | 22nd | 12th | 5th | 8th | ||||||||
| EC 2017 | 20th | |
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11th | — | 9th | — | ||||||
| WC 2018 | 16th | |
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14th | 9th | 7th | |||||||
| EC 2019 | |
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DNS | DNS | DNS | — | — | ||||||
| WC 2021 | |
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7th | 8th | 7th | ||||||||
| WC 2022 | 7th | |
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| EC 2023 | |
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References
[edit]- ^ 15th FINA World Championships – Barcelona (ESP) - Men's 200m Backstroke - 1 AUG 2013
- ^ 2017 Summer Universiade Taipei (TW) - Men's 100m Backstroke - 21 AUG 2017
- ^ 2017 World University Games: Day 3 Finals Live Recap
- ^ 2017 World University Games: Day 6 Finals Live Recap
- ^ FINA (15 December 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 400m Freestyle Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ "Danas Rapšys Melburne iškovojo bronzą" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian Swimming Federation. 15 December 2022. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ "Danas Rapšys pateko į antrąjį finalą pasaulio čempionate Melburne" (in Lithuanian). Lithuanian National Radio and Television. 18 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- ^ FINA (18 December 2022). "16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) Melbourne (AUS): Men's 200m Freestyle Final Results". Omega Timing. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
External links
[edit]- Danas Rapšys at World Aquatics
- Danas Rapšys at SwimRankings.net
- Danas Rapšys at the International Swimming League
- Danas Rapšys at Olympics.com
- Danas Rapšys at Olympedia
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Lithuanian male butterfly swimmers
- Lithuanian male backstroke swimmers
- Swimmers from Panevėžys
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Lithuania
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- Lithuanian male freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Lithuania
- FISU World University Games 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)
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics