Pavelas Fedorenka
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Pavelas Fedorenka is a retired male long-distance runner from Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

. He competed for his native Baltic
Baltic states
The term Baltic states refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania ; Finland also fell within the scope of the term after initially gaining independence in the 1920s.The...

 country in the men's marathon event at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 in Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

, finishing in 70th place (2:25.41). The other two competitors for Lithuania in this race, Česlovas Kundrotas
Česlovas Kundrotas
Česlovas Kundrotas is a retired male long-distance runner from Lithuania. He competed for his native Baltic country in the men's marathon event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he didn't reach the finish line...

 and Dainius Virbickas
Dainius Virbickas
Dainius Virbickas is a retired Lithuanian long-distance runner.He competed in the men's marathon event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he didn't reach the finish line. The other two competitors for Lithuania in this event were Pavelas Fedorenka and Česlovas Kundrotas, who...

, did not finish. Fedorenka set his personal best and national record in the men's 1,500 metres distance on 7 June, 1987 in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, clocking 3.40,90.

Achievements

Representing
1992 Lithuanian Athletics Championships
Lithuanian Athletics Championships
Lithuanian Athletics Championships – national champsionhips in athletics, organizating by Athletic Federation of Lithuania. Recent competitions were held in S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium in Kaunas since 2000. First competition was held in 1921...

Vilnius, Lithuania 1st 1500 m 3:47.93 (CR)
1996 Olympic Games
Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, 44 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 20 by women. There were a total number of 2053 participating athletes from 191 countries.-Men:...

Atlanta, United States
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...

70th Marathon 2:25:41
1998 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
IAAF World Half Marathon Championships
The IAAF World Half Marathon Championships is an annual half marathon competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It was contested from 1992 to 2005, and replaced by the IAAF World Road Running Championships, a 20 kilometres race which had its inaugural...

Uster
Uster
Uster is a city and capital of the district Uster in the Swiss Canton of Zürich.It is the third largest city in the Canton of Zürich, with over 30,000 inhabitants, and is one of the twenty largest cities in Switzerland...

, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

87th Half Marathon 1:05:59
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