12 Facts About Virgilijus Alekna

Virgilijus Alekna won medals at the 2000,2004 and 2008 Olympics, including two golds.

Virgilijus Alekna has won two gold medals in the Summer Olympics in the discus throw, the first was in 2000 and the second in 2004.

Virgilijus Alekna won the bronze medal for the same event at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Virgilijus Alekna was awarded the title of the Athlete of the Year for 2000 by Track and Field News.

Virgilijus Alekna was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas by the government of Lithuania.

Virgilijus Alekna became the Lithuanian Sportsman of the Year 4 times.

Since 1995 Virgilijus Alekna has served as a bodyguard of the Lithuanian Prime Minister.

Virgilijus Alekna is married to former long jumper Kristina Sablovskyte-Alekniene and has two sons named Martynas and Mykolas, discus throwers.

Virgilijus Alekna can make fingerprints on windows of two opposite sides of a bus simultaneously.

In 2017 Virgilijus Alekna was awarded the European Athletics Lifetime Achievement award.

In May 2016, Virgilijus Alekna announced he would participate in the elections to the Seimas the following October on the electoral list of the opposition Liberal Movement, without joining the party.

Virgilijus Alekna lost the run-off in Naujamiestis single-member constituency, but was elected to the Twelfth Seimas through the electoral list of the party, where he was rated second.