Rūta Meilutytė, Lithuanian swimmer and Olympic gold medalist and Jevgenij Šuklin, Lithuanian sprint canoer were elected as the best Lithuanian athletes and received the prizes at the Congress hall in Vilnius on 19th January 2015. This is already the third such award for Meilutytė, while Šuklin has won for the first time.

This award is given to athletes in Lithuania since 1956.