Tomas Delininkaitis
Tomas Delininkaitis ( born June 11, 1982 in Klaipeda, Lithuanian SSR) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. Delininkaitis ' biggest successes at the international level are winning the bronze medal at the 2010 World Cup with the Lithuanian national team, winning the ULEB Cup in 2004/05 with the club Lietuvos Rytas from Vilnius. In addition Delininkaitis won with his respective clubs and competitions around the Baltic Basketball League and national title wins in Lithuania and Ukraine.
Career
2002 Delininkaitis came from his original club Lietuvos Rytas Neptunas to in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. There he played with, among others with his teammates from the U20 junior national Simas Jasaitis and Povilas Čukinas. In the season 2004/ 05 succeeded in winning the ULEB Cup 2004 /05 the first European title of the association. In the following season could Zalgiris Kaunas archrival abjagen not only the Lithuanian championship, but the title in the Baltic League. After players like Robertas Javtokas and Jasaitis and Čukinas had left the team in 2007 could only be defended in the success of the Baltic League.
Then also Delininkaitis 2007 moved abroad and won in 2008 with BK Asowmasch from Mariupol Ukrainian Championship. According to another station in the Ukraine during BK Budiwelnyk from Kiev Delininkaitis changed for the 2009/10 season in the Spanish ACB league for basketball club from Murcia. The team, however, was not very successful and rose finish the season with only five wins from as Table. Delininkaitis and the club had already separated the end of February again. Beginning of April 2010 Delininkaitis got a new contract with PAOK Thessaloniki of the Greek A1 Ethniki, but were eliminated in the first play-off round of the Greek Cup. In summer 2010 Delininkaitis was again in the squad of the Lithuanian national team for the World Cup finals in 2010 in Turkey. Having already heard the final cadres for the 2006 World Cup and the 2009 European Championships, it was more successful at this World Cup finals. After a preliminary round victory over European champions Spain and a quarter -final win over the Olympic bronze medalist Argentina, showed in the Delininkaitis his best performance of the tournament with 16 points in twelve minutes operating time, you could unbeaten move to the semifinals, where they lost to the defending champion United States. Having won the " small final " against Serbia and winning the bronze medal this remained the only defeat in this tournament. The eight wins in this tournament they won all matches except for the preliminary matches against Spain and Canada with at least ten points ahead.
Subsequently, Delininkaitis separated in 2010 in the dispute over salary payments PAOK and returned to his Lithuanian homeland where he calculated the former arch-rivals Zalgiris Kaunas joined. With this club he won the 2011 " Baltic triple" of national league and cup win as well as winning the Baltic League. This could be repeated in 2012 to winning the National Cup. In the European Championship finals in 2011 in their own country occupied Lithuania, had been in the team Delininkaitis hardly play, the fifth place after a surprising quarter-final defeat against outsiders Macedonia and had in the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. After the tournament in Caracas, in which Lithuania qualified and Delininkaitis again little play got swapped coach Kestutis Kemzūra the squad to two positions, including, inter alia Delininkaitis against his longtime teammate Jasaitis. Delininkaitis missed so after 2008 once again participating in the Olympics. In the season 2012/13 he went again into the Basketball Super League Ukraine and got a contract with BK Mawpy in Cherkassy.
Achievements
- World Cup bronze medal in 2010
- ULEB Cup 2005
- Baltic League 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012
- Lithuanian champion in 2006, 2011, 2012
- Ukrainian Champion 2008
- Lithuanian Cup Winner 2011