Aiga Grabuste

Aiga Grabuste
Aiga Grabuste 2011 at the TNT Express Meeting in Kladno
nation	Latvia
birthday	24th March 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Rēzekne ,  Soviet Union
size	178 cm
Weight	55 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump , heptathlon
Best performance	6.69 m, 6507 points
status	active
Medal table
European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Junior European Championships 1 × 0 × 1 ×
European championships bronze Helsinki 2012 6325 points  U23 European Championships gold Kaunas 2009 6396 points  Junior European Championships gold Hengelo 2007 5920 points
last change: June 20, 2017

Aiga Grabuste (born March 24, 1988 in Rēzekne , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian long jumper and former heptathlete .

Athletic career

In 2005 she finished 27th at the Youth World Championships in Marrakech with 4,376 points. In her junior career, Aiga Grabuste took part in the Junior World Championships in Beijing , where she was ninth with 5443 points. At the Junior European Championships in Hengelo in 2007 she won the gold medal with 5920 points and clearly beat her worst opponent, Eliška Klučinová , with almost 200 points . She also qualified for the World Championships in Osaka , where she finished 17th. In 2008 she took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing and was 19 there. In 2009 she won the gold medal at the U23 European Championships in Kaunas and set a new championship record with 6396 points. At the World Championships in Berlin this time she finished thirteenth.

In 2010 she took part in the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Doha and was eighth there. In 2011 she finished tenth at the European Indoor Championships in Paris , as well as at the World Championships in Daegu in the summer. In 2012 she celebrated her greatest success by winning the bronze medal at the European Championships in Helsinki behind her compatriot Laura Ikauniece . At the Olympic Games in London , she could not finish the competition due to an injury .

Due to several injuries, she was unable to compete in 2013 and specialized in the long jump. In 2014 she finished fifth at the European Championships in Zurich . In 2015 she took part in the European Indoor Championships in Prague , where she took eighth place in the final. She also took part in the World Championships in Beijing, but retired there with 6.48 m in qualification . In 2016 she took part in the European Championships in Amsterdam , where she had to give up qualifying without a valid attempt.

Personal best

• Long jump: 6.69 m, June 9, 2014 in Prague
  • Hall: 6.82 m, February 8, 2015 in Tbilisi ( Latvian record )
• Heptathlon: 6507 points, July 17th, 2011 in Ratingen
  • Pentathlon (hall): 4463 points, February 8, 2009 in Tallinn

Web links

• Aiga Grabuste in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/history/year=2015/results/index.html