Birutė Kalėdienė
Birutė Kalėdienė (born Zalogaitytė ; born November 2, 1934 in Baltrušiai , Šakiai Rajongemeinde ) is a former Lithuanian javelin thrower who competed for the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s .
successes
In 1958 she won silver at the European Athletics Championships in Stockholm and set a world record with 57.49 m on October 30 in Tbilisi .
At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 she won the bronze medal and in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo she was fourth.
After 1966 she worked as a trainer. As a senior athlete, she set several world records, including the current (as of August 29, 2009) in the F75 class (26.21 m, September 3, 2008, Malmö ).
Web links
- Birutė Kalėdienė in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ World Masters Athletics: Records Outdoor Women ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kalėdienė, Birutė |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zalogaitytė, Birutė (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian javelin thrower starting for the Soviet Union |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baltrušiai |