Simona Krupeckaitė

Simona Krupeckaitė

Simona Krupeckaitė with the silver medal in the Keirin at the European Track Championships 2017
To person
Date of birth	December 13, 1982
nation	Lithuania
discipline	Train (short term)
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2018 - Keirin 2010 - Keirin 2009 - 500 meter time trial UEC European Rail Championships 2016 - Sprint
Last updated: January 31, 2018

Simona Krupeckaitė (born December 13, 1982 in Utena , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Lithuanian cyclist . She does track cycling in short-term disciplines and is one of the strongest athletes here.

Athletic career

Simona Krupeckaitė has been internationally active since 2003. Her favorite disciplines are the short-term sprint , keirin , 500 m time trial and team sprint . She took numerous top places in World Cups , European and World Championships. Her greatest success so far was winning the title at the UCI Track World Championships 2009 in Pruszków in the time trial over 500 m; she set a new world record (33.296 seconds). Both in 2009 and 2010 , Krupeckaitė and Gintarė Gaivenytė finished third in the team sprint at the World Track Championships, and in Keirin in 2010 she won the world championship.

At the Moscow Grand Prix on May 29, 2010 Simona Krupeckaitė set a new world record over 200 meters with a flying start of 10.793 seconds. With that she broke Olga Slyusareva's 17-year-old record of 10.831 seconds.

In 2016 Krupeckaitė was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished twelfth in the keirin and seventh in the sprint. In the same year she became European sprint champion.

Honors

In 2009, 2010 and 2016 Krupeckaitė was named Lithuania's Sportswoman of the Year .

successes

Krupeckaitė (in yellow) in the sprint semifinals of the European Track Championships 2016 (against Anastassija Sergejewna Woinowa )

2003

• European Championship (U23) - Sprint, 500-meter time trial

2004

• World Championship - 500 meter time trial

2008

• World Championship - Sprint, 500m Time Trial
• Track Cycling World Cup in Cali - Sprint, Keirin, 500-meter time trial

2009

• World champion - 500 meter time trial
• Track cycling world cup in Beijing - sprint, keirin, 500 meter time trial

2010

• - World Champion - Keirin
• - World Championship - 500 meter time trial
• - World Championship - sprint, team sprint (with Gintarė Gaivenytė )
• European Championship - Keirin
• European Championship - Sprint

2011

• World Championship - Sprint
• Track Cycling World Cup in Cali - Keirin

2012

• World Championship - Sprint
• Track Cycling World Cup in London - Keirin
• European Champion - Keirin, team sprint (with Gintarė Gaivenytė )
• European Championship - Sprint

2016

• Track Cycling World Cup in Hong Kong - Keirin
• Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow - Sprint, Keirin
• European Champion - Sprint
• European Championship - Keirin, team sprint (with Miglė Marozaitė )

2017

• European Championship - Keirin
• Lithuanian champion - sprint, team sprint (with Miglė Marozaitė )

2018

• World Championship - Keirin
• Lithuanian champion - sprint, team sprint (with Miglė Marozaitė )

2019

• European game winner - Keirin
• European Games - Team Sprint (with Miglė Marozaitė )
• Lithuanian champion - sprint, keirin, team sprint (with Miglė Marozaitė )

2020

• Lithuanian champion - sprint, keirin, team sprint (with Miglė Marozaitė )

Teams

• 2004 Aliverti, Bianchi, Kookai
• 2005 Team Bianchi, Aliverti
• 2007–2008 Safi, Pasta Zara, Manhattan
• 2009 Safi, Pasta Zara, Titanedi

Web links

Commons : Simona Krupeckaitė  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Simona Krupeckaitė in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Simona Krupeckaitė in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iš Lietuvos sportininkių lūpų - žodžiai apie sunkius metus ir įkvėpimą. In: sportas.lrytas.lt. November 28, 2017, accessed January 31, 2018 (Lithuanian).