Lithuania at the 2010 Winter Olympics

The 1924 Summer Olympics marked Lithuania's first participation in the Olympic Games. The nation made its debut in the Winter Olympics at the 1928 Winter Olympics.^[1] After its debut in 1928, the country did not participate in the Winter Games till the 1992 Games. The Lithuanian National Olympic Committee was recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1991. The country's participation in the 2010 Games marked its seventh appearance at the Winter Olympics.^[1]

The 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Vancouver held between 12 and 28 February 2010.^[2][3] The Lithuanian delegation consisted of six athletes.^[4][5] Irina Terentjeva served as the country's flag-bearer during the opening ceremony and Mantas Strolia was the flag-bearer during the closing ceremony.^[6] Lithuania did not win any medal in the Games, and has not won a Winter Olympics medal previously.^[1]

Lithuania sent six athletes including two women who competed in three sports at the Games.^[4][5]

Lithuania had qualified an entry in the ice dancing event for the figure skating event in lieu of the pair of Deividas Stagniūnas and Katherine Copely finishing 14th at the 2009 World Figure Skating Championships.^[7] However, as Copely had an American citizenship, she did not meet the criteria required to represent Lithuania in the Olympics. Her special request for citizenship was denied by Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė.^[8]

The basic qualification mark for the alpine skiing events stipulated an average of less than 140 points in the list published by the International Ski Federation (FIS) as of 18 January 2010 for competitors ranked outside the top 100.^[9]: 1 The quotas were allocated further based on athletes satisfying other criteria, with a maximum of 22 athletes (maximum of 14 male or 14 female athletes) from a single participating NOC with not more than four participants in a single event.^[9]: 2 Vitalijus Rumiancevas achieved the basic qualification mark to qualify for the men's giant slalom and slalom events.^[5] Born in 1985, this was his second participation in the Winter Games.^[10]

The main event was held on 19 February 2010 at the Whistler Olympic Park.^[11] In the giant slalom event, Rumiancevas completed his first run in 1:27.27. He took slightly longer to complete the course in the second run at 1:29.52. With a combined time of 2:56.79, he finished 59th amongst 89 competitors in the overall classification.^[12][13] In the slalom event, he did not record a finish.^[14]