Rasa Drazdauskaitė

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Rasa Drazdauskaitė (2nd from left) running the 2012 Summer Olympics marathon

Rasa Drazdauskaitė (born March 20, 1981 in Šiauliai ) is a Lithuanian middle and long distance runner .

Life

In 2002 she was eliminated from the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Vienna and from the European Championships in Munich over 1500 m in each run.

At the U23 European Athletics Championships in 2003, she finished second in the 1500 m, but was convicted of taking stanozolol during the subsequent doping control and disqualified for this violation of the doping regulations and suspended for two years.

In 2007, after moving to the 42.195 km distance, she was tenth in the Frankfurt Marathon . In the following year, after finishing sixth in the Hamburg Marathon, she was nominated for the Olympic Games in Beijing , in whose marathon she came in 37th.

In 2009 she was second overall in the Belgrade Marathon military world champion and fifth in the Frankfurt Marathon. In 2010 she came in 15th place at the European Championships in Barcelona . At the Athens Marathon she set a course record of 2:31:06 h and at the same time defended her military world title. At the Olympic Summer Games 2012 she took part in the marathon and came in 27th place in a new personal best of 2:29:29 h.

So far she has won national titles once over 800 m (2002), four times over 1500 m (1999, 2002, 2006, 2007), three times in cross-country running (2001-2003) and twice over 10,000 m . In the hall she was three times over 800 m (1999, 2000, 2002), four times over 1500 m (1998-2000), once over 3000 m (2003) and once in the 1500 m obstacle course (2006) Lithuanian champion.

Rasa Drazdauskaitė runs for the Šviesos kariai club , her coach is Česlovas Kundrotas . She is 1.74 m tall and weighs 61 kg.

Personal bests

  • 800 m: 2: 02.24 min, June 27, 2003, Gdansk
    • Hall: 2: 09.61 min, January 23, 2007, Tallinn
  • 1500 m: 4: 07.78 min, June 29, 2003, Poznan
    • Hall: 4: 17.88 min, February 11, 2007, Karlsruhe
  • 3000 m: 9: 25.74 min, June 23, 2007, Odense
  • 5000 m : 16: 05.27 min, June 20, 2010, Budapest
  • 10,000 m: 33: 16.06 min, July 9, 2010, Kaunas
  • Half marathon : 1:12:54 h, 13. September 2009, Tallinn
  • Marathon: 2:29:29 h, August 5, 2012, London

Web links

Commons : Rasa Drazdauskaitė  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Athletes Sanctioned for a Doping Offence Committed 2003-2008
  2. ^ IAAF: Drazdauskaite and Bett beat the heat to make history in Athens ( Memento of November 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). October 31, 2010
  3. ↑ gbrathletics: Lithuanian Championships
  4. ↑ gbrathletics: Lithuanian Indoor Championships
  5. ↑ Portrait on London2012.com , accessed August 13, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Drazdauskaitė, Rasa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian middle and long distance runner
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Šiauliai