Gediminas Grinius
Gediminas Grinius | |
nation | Lithuania |
birthday | 25th July 1979 (age 41) |
place of birth | Ukmergė , Lithuania |
Career | |
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society | Vibram trail running team |
last change: September 4, 2018 |
Gediminas Grinius (born July 25, 1979 in Ukmergė , Lithuania ) is a Lithuanian mountain and ultramarathon runner . Grinius was the overall winner of the Ultra-Trail World Tour in 2016 .
Life
Gediminas Grinius came to running late; he completed his first half marathon in Lithuania at the age of 28.
From 2009 he trained regularly in order to alleviate his post- traumatic stress disorder, which he had drawn in after a deployment in Iraq as a professional soldier in the Lithuanian army , later passion and sporting challenge prevailed. During his stationing in Poland, Grinius turned to mountain running and started for the Polish inov-8 team a . a. at GutsMuths-Rennsteiglauf and Zugspitz Ultratrail 2013 as well as the Laravendo Ultra Trail , the Transgrancanaria and the UTMB - his first mountain run with a distance of over 100 miles. Grinius finished fifth overall at the UTMB and came third on the Ultra-Trail World Tour at the end of the year .
He has been a member of the Vibram trail running team since 2015 and finished second on the Ultra Trail World Tour . In 2016 he achieved overall victory in the Ultra-Trail World Tour due to his extraordinary trail running performance .
Grinius works for the Lithuanian Ministry of Defense as an analyst for the NATO armed forces and lives with his family in Vilnius .
Successes (selection)
- 2014: 3rd place at the Lavaredo Ultra Trail (119 km) in 13:01:22 h
- 2014: 3rd place in the Ultra-Trail World Tour
- 2015: 1st place at the Transgrancanaria (125 km) in 14:23:37 h
- 2015: 1st place at the Ultra-Trail Mt.Fuji (169 km) in 20:40:58 h
- 2015: 2nd place in the Ultra-Trail World Tour
- 2016: 2nd place at the Transgrancanaria (125 km) in 13:45:08 h
- 2016: 3rd place at the Hong Kong 100 (100 km) in 9:53:51 h
- 2016: 2nd place at the Lavaredo Ultra Trail (122 km) in 12:23:06 h
- 2016: 1st place in the Ultra Trail Tai Mo Shan (162 km) in 20:04:00 h
- 2016: 2nd place at UTMB (170 km) in 22:26:05 h
- 2016: Winner of the Ultra-Trail World Tour
- 2017: 1st place in the Cappadocia Ultra Trail (114.3 km) in 10: 56.07 h
- 2018: 1st place at the Ultra Trail Tai Mo Shan (162 km) in 18:48:00 h
- 2018: 1st place at the Trójmiejski Ultra Track Zima , Poland (68.6 km) in 5:16:02 h
- 2018: 1st place at Mt. Gaoligong Ultra 100 Miles , China in 19:39:14 h
- 2019: 3rd place at Ultra-Trail Tai Mo Shan , Hong Kong (50 km) in 5:33:44 h
- 2019: 1st place in the Vermont 100 Mile Endurance Race in 15:41:03 h
Records (selection)
- 2015: Track record on the 125 km long Transgrancanaria on Gran Canaria in 14:23:37 hours.
Web links
- Gediminas Grinius: Ultra Marathon Statistics on the website of the German Ultramarathon Association
- Trail running factory
- Gediminas Grinius' blog
Individual evidence
- ↑ Running from PTSD to Ultra Champion. In: YouTube . Outside, November 30, 2017, accessed August 31, 2018 .
- ^ From Iraq to the UTMB - a unique trail running story. inov-8, September 30, 2014, accessed on August 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Carsten Reichel: Gediminas Grinius is a new Vibram athlete. Outdoor.de, December 10, 2015, accessed on August 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Gediminas Grinius. Ultra-Trail World Tour , November 4, 2016, accessed August 31, 2018 .
- ↑ Gediminas Grinius, 2015 TNF Transgrancanaria Champion, interview. In: YouTube . iRunFarMedia, March 8, 2015, accessed on August 31, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grinius, Gediminas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian mountain and ultra marathon runner |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ukmergė |