Simonas Bilis (born 11 November 1993) is a Lithuanian swimmer. He is the current national record holder in the 50-meter, 100-meter freestyle (long course) and 50-meter, 100-meter freestyle (short course).
Bilis represented Lithuania at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships where he finished 20th in 50m freestyle. In 2016, he broke national record with 48.64 in men's 100m freestyle and qualified for 2016 Olympics.[1] He finished 8th place in the 50 meter Freestyle at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
In November 2022 Bilis announced about his retirement from sport.[2]
International Swimming League
In the Autumn of 2019 he was member of the inaugural International Swimming League swimming for the Energy Standard Swim Club, who won the team title in Las Vegas, Nevada, in December.[3] Since 2019 he has trained with the club full-time.
Personal bests
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International championships (50 m)
| Meet | 50 free | 100 free | 200 free | 4×100 free | 4×200 free | 4×100 medley | 4×100 medley (mix) |
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| EC 2012 | 38th | 47th | 36th | — | |||
| EC 2014 | 32nd | 46th | 35th | 7th | — | ||
| WC 2015 | 20th | 19th | |||||
| EC 2016 | 9th | 10th | 11th | 5th | — | ||
| OG 2016 | 8th | 30th | 14th | — | |||
| WC 2017 | 29th | 43rd | 17th | ||||
| EC 2018 | 5th | 12th | 13th | 12th | 4th | ||
| WC 2019 | 21st | 21st | 11th | ||||
| EC 2020 | 42nd | 29th | 16th | 9th | 24th | ||
| OG 2020 | 15th[a] |
- a Team Lithuania was disqualified in the heats
References
External links
- Simonas Bilis at World Aquatics
- Simonas Bilis at the International Swimming League
- Simonas Bilis at Swimrankings.net
- Simonas Bilis at Olympics.com
- Simonas Bilis at Olympic.org (archived)
- Simonas Bilis at Olympedia
- Simonas Bilis at the Lietuvos tautinis olimpinis komitetas (in Lithuanian)
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