Eglė Balčiūnaitė

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Eglė Balčiūnaitė athletics

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Eglė Balčiūnaitė, 2010

nation LithuaniaLithuania Lithuania
birthday October 31, 1988
place of birth ŠiauliaiSoviet UnionSoviet UnionSoviet Union 
size 175 cm
Weight 60 kg
Career
discipline Middle distance run
Best performance 1: 59.29 min

Eglė Balčiūnaitė (born October 31, 1988 in Šiauliai , Lithuanian SSR , USSR ) is a Lithuanian middle -distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter distance .

She qualified as the only Lithuanian 800 meter runner for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , where she was eliminated in the semifinals and thus finished 20th. At the U23 European Championships in 2009 in Kaunas , Lithuania , she finished sixth in the final over 800 meters.

At the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha , she reached the final, where she was fifth with a new Lithuanian indoor national record of 2: 01.37 minutes. It also holds the national indoor record over 400 meters.

For the first time she ran under two minutes on July 22, 2010 in the Diamond League in Monaco , when she reached a time of 1: 59.29 minutes.

Top performances

Open air:

  • 800 meters: 1: 59.29 min, July 22, 2010, Monaco

Hall:

  • 800 meters: 2: 01.37 min, March 14, 2010, Doha (NR)
  • 400 meters: 53.47 s, February 13, 2010, Pombal (NR)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Results of the U23 European Championships 2009 - www.tilastopaja.org
  2. 800 meters women - 13th IAAF World Indoor Championships - IAAF