Ieva Zarankaitė

Ieva Zarankaitė (born November 23, 1994 ) is a Lithuanian athlete who specializes in the shot put , discus throw and hammer throw .

Career

She took part in the 2013 Junior European Athletics Championships in the Stadio Raul Guidobaldi in Rieti and missed a medal in fourth with a width of 50.37 meters. On July 26, 2013 Ieva Zarankaitė started at the Lithuanian Athletics Championships in Šiauliai in the discus throw . With a width of 49.64 meters she took second place behind the serial winner Zinaida Sendriūtė . A year later, at the age of 19, she won her first Lithuanian championship title. On July 26, 2014 she won the shot put with a distance of 14.49 meters and in the discus throw she again secured the silver medal behind Zinaida Sendriūtė.

Between 2015 and 2017, Ieva Zarankaitė won the silver medal in the discus throw at the Lithuanian championships. On July 18, 2016, Palanga secured another medal in addition to the silver medal in the discus throw. In the hammer throw she took third place that day and won the bronze medal. A year later she won the silver medal behind Aistė Žiginskaitė in a hammer throw in Palanga on July 21, 2017 .

In 2018, she secured a total of two championship titles at the Lithuanian championships. After 2014, on July 27, 2018 in Palanga with a width of 15.96 meters, she was again able to become Lithuanian champion in the shot put . After Zinaida Sendriūtė had ended her career, Ieva Zarankaite secured the championship title in the discus throw with a width of 55.62 meters and thus became Sendriūtė's successor. Due to her good performances during the season, she qualified for the European Athletics Championships 2018 in Berlin , where she started both in the shot put and in the discus throw. In both disciplines she clearly failed in qualifying. In 2019 she won the bronze medal at the Summer Universiade in Naples with 56.75 m behind the Italian Daisy Osakue and Claudine Vita from Germany and took twelfth place in the shot put with 14.51 m.

Web links

• Ieva Zarankaitė in the database of World Athletics (English)