The world arm wrestling championship began at the Vilnius Exhibition and Convention Centre LITEXPO last Wednesday. The championship brought together athletes from 46 countries who will compete on 17-20 September for the arm wrestling world champion titles.

The USA team has won a FIBA World Cup title for the fifth time. Unfortunately, the game was not that successful for Lithuanian national team.

Lithuanian men's basketball team lost World Cup semi-finals in Spain against team USA 68-96 and will compete for bronze medals.

In the first quarter-final meeting of FIBA World Cup held in Spain, Lithuanian National Basketball team overcame Turkey (73:61) thanks to a great fourth quarter.

Jonas Valanciunas dominated in the paint while Lithuanian National Basketball team held on to beat New Zealand 76:71 (23: 9, 13:17, 22:24, 18:21) in the Round of 16 at FIBA World Cup in Barcelona.

President Dalia Grybauskaite and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius congratulate Lithuanian rower Jevgenij Suklin on winning bronze medal in 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Moscow.

The first medal ceremony of the 2nd European Universities Games 2014 took place last Sunday at Victoria, the table tennis venue.

2nd European Universities Games began yesterday in Rotterdam. About 3 thousand students from 150 high schools are taking part in the event. All in all, there will be people from 45 countries competing in 10 sports. The event will last until 8th August.

The list of players of the national basketball team for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup has been published by the Lithuanian Basketball Federation. It includes 17 names of players.

One week has passed since the start of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. There were lots of exciting matches and surprises, e.g. Spain going home just after two matches! Let us have a look on some statistics.