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Modestas Vaičiulis

Lithuanian cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ3444424
Source-derived summary

Modestas Vaičiulis (born 11 April 1989) is a Lithuanian cross-country skier since 2007. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the team sprint and 54th in the individual sprint events. Vaičiulius returned to represent Lithuania at the 2018, 2022, and 2026 Winter Olympics.

Vaičiulis finished 49th in the sprint event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec.

His best World Cup finish was 28th in a sprint event in Dresden in 2020.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Modestas Vaičiulis” as lithuanian cross-country skier. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989, 2007, 2010, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1989-04-11. The account is most persuasive where Modestas, Vaičiulis and Lithuanian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as lithuanian cross-country skier. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from Modestas Vaičiulis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.