Lithuania men's national goalball team

The team competed in the 2000 Summer Paralympics, between 18 and 29 October 2000, at an Olympic Park indoor hall, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They came second.

The team competed in 2004 Summer Paralympics, between 17 and 28 September 2004, in the Faliro Sports Pavilion Arena, Athens, Greece. They came ninth.

The team competed in 2008 Summer Paralympics, from 6 to 17 September 2008, in the Beijing Institute of Technology Gymnasium 'bat wing' arena, Beijing, China. There were 12 men's teams and 8 women's teams taking part in this event. They came second.

The team competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics from 30 August to 7 September 2012, in the Copper Box Arena, London, England. They came fourth.

The following is the Lithuania roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[1]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Turkey	5	4	1	0	26	6	+20	13	Quarterfinals
Brazil	5	3	0	2	30	20	+10	9
Lithuania	5	2	2	1	33	20	+13	8
Finland	5	2	0	3	16	24	−8	6
Sweden	5	1	2	2	16	25	−9	5	Eliminated
Great Britain	5	0	1	4	9	35	−26	1

30 August 2012 09:00	Lithuania	11 – 1	Great Britain	Copper Box, London Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Kimberly Anderson (USA)
	Pavliukianec 4 Zibolis 3 Juchna 2 Panovas 2	Report	Sharkey 1

31 August 2012 10:15	Lithuania	10 – 0	Finland	Copper Box, London Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Warrick Jackes (AUS)
	Pavliukianec 5 Juchna 3 Leonavicius 1 Zibolis 1	Report

1 September 2012 11:30	Brazil	12 – 5	Lithuania	Copper Box, London Referees: Thomas Baerz (GER), Launel Scott (CAN)
	Marques 10 Almeida Maciel Celente 2	Report	Montvydas 2 Pavliuklianec 2 Panovas 1

2 September 2012 19:45	Sweden	5 – 5	Lithuania	Copper Box, London Referees: Janne Ahokas (FIN), Hooshang Shariati (IRI)
	Seremati 5	Report	Pavliukianec 2 Panovas 2 Juchna 1

4 September 2012 19:45	Lithuania	2 – 2	Turkey	Copper Box, London Referees: Hooshang Shariati (IRI), Dawna Christy (CAN)
	Zibolis 2	Report	Alkan 1 Karakaya 1

Quarter-finals

5 September 2012 18:00	China	4 – 12	Lithuania	Copper Box, London Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Carla Da Matta (BRA)
	Chen 2 Yongquan 2	Report	Zibolis 6 Juchna 4 Leonavičius 1 Pavliukianec 1

Semi-finals

6 September 2012 20:00	Brazil	2 – 1	Lithuania	Copper Box, London Referees: Janne Ahokas (FIN), Shinji Mizuno (JPN)
	Almeida Maciel Celente 1 Marques 1	Report	Leonavičius 1

Finals

7 September 2012 18:30	Lithuania	1 – 4	Turkey	Copper Box, London Referees: Juha Vuokila (FIN), Yasser Omar (EGY)
	Zibolis 1	Report	Karakaya 4

The team competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics, with competition from Thursday 8 September to finals on Friday 16 September 2016, in the temporary Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[2] They won the gold medal.

The following is the Lithuania roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[3]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lithuania	4	4	0	0	35	22	+13	12	Quarter-finals
2	United States	4	2	0	2	21	18	+3	6
3	Turkey	4	2	0	2	20	23	−3	6
4	China	4	1	0	3	25	28	−3	3
5	Finland	4	1	0	3	24	34	−10	3

8 September 2016 17:30	Finland	6–13	Lithuania	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP), Rudi Janssen (BEL)
	Miinala 3 Mattila 1 Posio 1 Honkanen 1	Report	Pavliukianec 7 Pažarauskas 5 Panovas 1

10 September 2016 13:15	Lithuania	8–7	United States	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP) Patricia Fras (SLO)
	Pavliukianec 6 Pazarauskas 2	Report	Hamilton 5 Merren 2

12 September 2016 14:15	Lithuania	3–1	China	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Patricia Fras (SLO), Joelle Boulet (CAN)
	Pavliukianec 2 Pazarauskas 1	Report	Chen 1

13 September 2016 20:45	Turkey	3–5	Lithuania	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Karakaya 2 Gündoğdu 1	Report	Panovas 2 Pavliukianec 1 Pazarauskas 1 Montvydas 1

Quarter-finals

14 September 2016 18:00	Lithuania	5–4	Canada	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Bülent Kimyon (TUR), Alexander Knecht (GER)
	Pazarauskas 3 Pavliukianec 2	Report	Ripley 2 Hache 1 Nesbitt 1

Semi-finals

15 September 2016 18:30	Lithuania	7–2	Sweden	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
	Pavliukianec 5 Pazarauskas 2	Report	Seremeti 1 Weichel 1

Finals

16 September 2016 20:00	United States	8–14	Lithuania	Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Nejc Jakic (SLO), Daniel Voltan (BRA)
	Simpson 4 Hamilton 1 Jenks 1 Merren 1 Walker 1	Report	Pavliukianec 8 Pazarauskas 6

The team competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics, with competition from Wednesday 25 August to finals on Friday 3 September 2021, in the Makuhari Messe arena, Chiba, Tokyo, Japan. They qualified at the 2019 IBSA Goalball Paralympic Ranking Tournament at Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America.

The team finished as bronze medalists, behind China, and Brazil.

The following is the Lithuania roster in the men's goalball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[4]

Coach was Valdas Gecevicius, and staff member Ugnius Savickas. Jerseys were predominantly green or white.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan (H)	4	3	0	1	37	15	+22	9	Quarter-finals
2	Brazil	4	3	0	1	35	17	+18	9
3	United States	4	2	0	2	25	35	−10	6
4	Lithuania	4	1	1	2	24	31	−7	4
5	Algeria	4	0	1	3	20	43	−23	1

Round-robin

25 August 2021 09:00	Brazil	11–2	Lithuania	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Robert Avery (Great Britain), Warrick Jackes (Australia)
	Marques 4 Moreno 3 Sousa 3 Da Silva 1	Report	Pavliukianec 1 Zibolis 1

26 August 2021 19:00	Lithuania	7–7	Algeria	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Warrick Jackes (Australia), Svitlana Moroz (Ukraine)
	Pavliukianec 3 Pazarauskas 3 Zibolis 1	Report	Belhouchat 7

28 August 2021 14:45	Lithuania	2–10	Japan	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Warrick Jackes (Australia), Bas Spaans (Netherlands)
	Montvydas 1 Pavliukianec 1	Report	Sano 4 Miyajiki 3 Kaneko 2 Yamaguchi 1

30 August 2021 13:15	United States	3–13	Lithuania	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Robert Avery (Great Britain), Bas Spaans (Netherlands)
	Simpson 2 Young 1	Report	Montvydas 5 Zibolis 4 Pavliukianec 2 Pazarauskas 2

Quarter-finals

31 August 2021 17:45	Belgium	4–7	Lithuania	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Bas Spaans (Netherlands), Raili Sipura (FIN)
	T. Vanhove 3 Amnir 1	Report	Pavliukianec 4 Montvydas 2 Pazarauskas 1

Semi-finals

2 September 2021 17:45	Lithuania	5–9	Brazil	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Yoshinori Nii (Japan), Warrick Jackes (Australia)
	Pavliukianec 2 Jonikaitis 1 Pažarauskas 1 Zibolis 1	Report	Sousa 6 Moreno 2 Marques 1

Finals

3 September 2021 15:00	United States	7–10	Lithuania	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Robert Avery (Great Britain), Warrick Jackes (Australia)
	Simpson 2 Walker 2 Young 2 Kusku 1	Report	Zibolis 4 Pavliukianec 3 Montvydas 2 Pažarauskas 1

The team competed in the 1998 World Championships, in Madrid, Spain.

The team competed in the 2002 World Championships, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 30 August 2002 to 8 September 2002.

The team competed in the 2006 World Championships, in July 2006, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States of America.

The team competed in the 2010 World Championships, from 20 to 25 June 2010, in Sheffield, England.[5] They were in Pool B.

Lithuania men's goalball team. Goalball World Championships, Malmö, Sweden (2018).

The team competed in the 2014 World Championships from 30 June to 5 July 2014, in Espoo, Finland. They were in Pool B, won their quarter-finals defeating the Czech Republic 11:6, but were mercied by Brazil 14:0 in the semi-finals. In the bronze medal match, they were defeated by the United States, 2:4.[5]

Athletes: Mantas Brazauskis (#4), Saulius Leonavicius (#5), Montvydas Nerijus (#1), Mantas Panovas (#6), Genrik Pavliukianec (#7), and Marius Zibolis (#8).

The team competed in the 2018 World Championships from 3 to 8 June 2018, at the Baltiska Hallen, Malmö, Sweden. They placed second in Pool A winning six of their seven games, beating the United States 7:4 in the quarter-finals, before being beaten by Brazil in the semi-finals 6:7. For the third place playoffs, they were beaten by Belgium 2:9. The team was fourth in final standings.[5]

Athletes included: Arturas Jonikaitis (centre).

The team competed in the 2022 World Championships from 7 to 16 December 2022, at the Centro de Desportos e Congressos de Matosinhos, Portugal. There were sixteen men's and sixteen women's teams. They placed second in Pool D, and fourth in final standings.[6]

The team competed in the 2015 IBSA World Games from 10 to 17 May 2015, in Seoul, South Korea.[5] Beating China 10:3, the team took the gold medal.

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  Lithuania line-up in a game with Australia (May 2015).
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  Lithuania throwing towards Japan (May 2015).
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  Awaiting medal presentation (May 2015).

The team competed in the 2013 IBSA Goalball European Championships, Group A, from 1 to 11 November 2013, at Konya, Turkey.[8] They beat Finland in the quarter-finals, 9:5, mercied Germany in the semi-finals 13:3, going onto beat Spain in the finals, 4:2.[5]

The team competed in the 2015 IBSA Goalball European A Championships, from 5 to 12 July 2015, in Kaunas, Lithuania. The tournament was organised by the Lithuanian Blind Sports Federation. Beating Ukraine 13:8 in the quarter-finals, they went on to lose to Finland 5:13. They mercied Czech Republic 15:5, to take third place.[5]

The team competed in the 2017 IBSA Goalball European A Championships from 15 to 23 September 2017, at Pajulahti, Nastola, Finland. They placed first, beating Germany 6:3.[5]

Athletes included: Nerijus Montvydas, Justas Pazarauskas (highest goalscorer of the tournament), Mindaugas Suchojevus, and Marius Zibolis.

The team competed in the 2019 IBSA Goalball European A Championships from 5 to 14 October 2019, in Rostock, Germany. They placed third in the final standings.[5]

Athletes included: Arturas Jonikaitis (centre), Nerijus Montvydas, Mantas Panovas, Justas Pazarauskas, and Marius Zibolis.