Živilė Balčiūnaitė
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Živilė Balčiūnaitė (born April 3, 1979 in Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR , USSR ) is a Lithuanian long-distance runner .
Life
In 1999 and 2005 Balčiūnaitė was the Lithuanian champion over 5000 m , in 2000 and 2004 over 10,000 m . In 1997 she had already won the national title over 3000 m indoors.
Her marathon career began in 2000 with an eighth place in the Hamburg Marathon . In 2001 he finished sixth in the same race. In 2002 she was third in the Berlin Half Marathon and in 2002 fourth in Hamburg.
The following year she was third at the Los Angeles and Dublin Marathon and finished 28th at the World Half Marathon Championships in Vilamoura .
In 2004 she won the Valencia Marathon and was again third in Los Angeles. At the marathon of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she came in 14th, at the Half Marathon World Championships in New Delhi in 17th. At the end of the season she set a national record in fifth at the Tokyo International Women's Marathon with 2:27:28 h.
In 2005 she finished second in Los Angeles, set national records over 10,000 m and in the half marathon , finished 17th at the World Half Marathon Championships in Edmonton and was second in Tokyo with the current national record of 2:25:15 h.
The following season she was tenth in the Boston Marathon , fourth in the marathon of the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg and fifth in Tokyo. At the road running world championships in Debrecen she came in 34th place.
In 2007 she led the Hamburg Marathon for a long time, but then fell back to fourth place. In the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in Osaka , she came in 33rd place, and in Tokyo she was eighth, qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games .
An eleventh place in the Olympic marathon in Beijing was followed shortly thereafter by a tenth place in the Berlin marathon . In 2009 she came 19th at the World Championships in Berlin and was seventh at the Yokohama Marathon .
In 2010, an eighth place in the Rome marathon was followed by victory in the marathon of the European Championships in Barcelona . It was the second gold medal for Lithuania at the European Athletics Championships after Virgilijus Alekna's 2006 discussion .
Three months after her triumph in Barcelona, the Lithuanian federation placed a protective barrier on her because the urine sample submitted at the time had found excessive levels of the hormones testosterone and epitestosterone . The world association IAAF banned her for two years and deprived her of the European title.
Personal bests
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3000 m : 9: 15.12 min, June 18, 2005, Tallinn
- Hall: 9: 21.55 min, February 11, 2001, Panevėžys
- 5000 m: 15: 55.05 min, June 9, 2005, Ostrava
- 10,000 m: 32: 30.48 min, June 14, 2005, Tula
- Half marathon: 1:10:23 h, November 6, 2005, Budapest
- Marathon: 2:25:15 h, November 20, 2005, Tokyo
Web links
- Živilė Balčiūnaitė in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Athlete portrait on marathoninfo.free.fr
- Živilė Balčiūnaitė in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ gbrathletics: Lithuanian championships
- ↑ gbrathletics: Lithuanian Indoor championships
- ↑ Leichtathletik.de: Marathon victory goes to Lithuania . July 31, 2010
- ^ Herbert Steffny : European Athletics Championships Barcelona 2010
- ↑ No mercy for civilian Balciunaite . Leichtathletik.de, April 2, 2012
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| SURNAME | Balčiūnaitė, Živilė |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |