Donata Vištartaitė
Donata Vištartaitė (married name Donata Karalienė ; born June 11, 1989 in Gūbriai , district of Šilalė ) is a Lithuanian rower .
Athletic career
The 1.70 m wide Donata Vištartaitė occupied at the Junior World Championships in 2006 to seventh place in the one at the Junior World Championships in 2007 she won the bronze medal. At the U23 World Championships in 2008, she finished ninth in the double scull with Lina Saltytė . At the European Championships in 2008 , the two finished eighth and last, they also competed with the double fours and came in sixth place out of six boats. In 2009 Donata Vištartaitė started again in one. She reached fourth place at the U23 World Championships and seventh place at the European Championships . In 2010 she reached an A-final in the rowing world cup for the first time and won the U23 world championships. She defended this title in 2011 and finished ninth at the World Championships in the adult class in 2011. At the end of the season she won the bronze medal at the European Championships . In 2012 she finished eighth in the One at the Olympic Games in London and won the European Championships in Varese.
Donata Vištartaitė has been rowing double sculls with Milda Valčiukaitė since 2013 , and in their first season together, the two won both the European and World Championships . In 2014, the two finished second in the World Cup three times, and in fourth place they missed the medal ranks at the World Championships . The 2015 rowing season began for the Lithuanians with a silver medal at the European Championships . At the beginning of July, he won the Universiade . At the world championships they reached fifth place. In 2016, the two Lithuanians won their preliminary run at the 2016 Olympic Games , took second place in the semifinals and won the bronze medal in the final. It was the third Olympic medal in rowing for Lithuania .
From 2014 to 2016 she was part of Lithuania's women's team of the year three times in a row .
Private
On September 3, 2016, Vištartaitė married and took the married name Karalienė.
Web links
- Donata Vištartaitė in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Donata Vištartaitė at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Footnotes
- ↑ Result of double sculls ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 22, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vištartaitė, Donata |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karalienė, Donata (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Šilalė |