2010 in Lithuania
# 2010 in Lithuania

This article is about the particular significance of the year 2010 to Lithuania and its people.

## Incumbents

* President: Dalia Grybauskaitė
* Prime Minister: Andrius Kubilius

## Chairmanships

* Community of Democracies

## Events

* May 28 – was held Sidabrinė gervė 2010.
* August 8 – wind flaw killed 4 people.
* August 27 – Gritė Maruškevičiūtė won Miss Lithuania 2010 title.
* October 7 – Lithuania and European Space Agency written cooperation agreement.

## Sports

* July 1–3 – Alytus held 2010 Lithuania Swimming Championships
* July 9–10 – in S. Darius and S. Girėnas Stadium was held 2010 Lithuanian Athletics Championships.
* July 22-August 1 – Lithuania held and won U18 European Championship Men 2010 Division A.
* July 27-August 1 – Živilė Balčiūnaitė won gold medal for Lithuania at marathon event in 2010 European Athletics Championships.
* August 14–26 – Lithuania achieved 19th place in 2010 Summer Youth Olympics with 5 medal (3 golden and 2 bronze)
* September 9–19 – Nida held 2010 Lithuanian Sailing Championships.
* September 12 – Lithuanian national basketball team won bronze medal at 2010 FIBA World Championship.
* November 25 – Vytautas Janušaitis won silver medal in 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships.
* November – Vilnius held Lithuania Open darts championship.
* Lithuanian Sportsman of the Year 2010: Simona Krupeckaitė

## Deaths

* January 20 - Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish poet.
* January 25 – Algirdas Petrulis, painter.
* January 26 - Eugenijus Karpavičius, illustrator.
* April 8 - Stanislovas Gediminas Ilgūnas, politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
* June 26 - Algirdas Brazauskas, the first President of a newly independent post-Soviet Union Lithuania from 1993 to 1998 and Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006.
* July 7 - Vytautas Čekanauskas, architect, professor of the Vilnius Academy of Art.
