Aiga Grabuste (born 24 March 1988, in Rēzekne)[2] is a Latvian track and field athlete competing in heptathlon. She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won bronze medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships, finishing just 10 points behind fellow Latvian Laura Ikauniece.
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Nationality | Latvian | ||||||||||||||
Born | Rēzekne, Latvia[1] | 24 March 1988||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Country | Latvia | ||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | ||||||||||||||
Event | Heptathlon | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best | Heptathlon: 6414 points | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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She set a then personal best of 6396 points at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships in Kaunas, winning the gold medal. Grabuste was also the 2007 European Junior champion in heptathlon.
In the indoor women's pentathlon, she was eighth at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships and tenth at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships. At the TNT - Fortuna Meeting in 2011 she set bests in the 200 metres, long jump and 800 metres events to take third overall with a score of 6252 points.[3]
Achievements
editYear | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes | |
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2006 | World Junior Championships | Beijing, China | 9th | 5443 pts | 14.57-1.68-12.82-25.70-5.80-40.67-2:28.92 |
2007 | European Junior Championships | Hengelo, Netherlands | 1st | 5920 | 14.26-1.69-14.26-25.01-6.32-41.21-2:21.85 |
World Championships | Osaka, Japan | 17th | 6019 pts | 13.84-1.77-13.04-24.98-6.02-45.76-2:19.97 | |
2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 19th | 6050 pts | 13.78-1.77-12.70-24.71-6.36-39.02-2:16.87 |
2009 | European U23 Championships | Kaunas, Lithuania | 1st | 6396 pts | 13.66-1.77-14.56-24.73-6.62-46.11-2:17.74 |
World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 13th | 6033 pts | 13.78-1.71-13.26-25.49-6.40-43.52-2:17.43 | |
2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 8th | 4013 pts | 8.94-1.63-12.33-6.05-2:23.84 |
2011 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 10th | 4342 pts | 8.68-1.71-14.18-6.29-2:25.44 |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 3rd | 6325 pts | 13.66–1.74–13.52–24.47–6.46–45.85–2:12.90 |
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 33rd | DNF | 13.65-1.77-13.52-0.00-0.00-0.00 |
Personal bests
editHeptathlon
editEvent | Record | Venue | Year |
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100 m hurdles | 13.46 s | Ratingen, Germany | 2011 |
High jump | 1.77 m | Beijing, China | 2008 |
Shot put | 14.56 m | Kaunas, Lithuania | 2009 |
200 m | 24.42 s | Kladno, Czech Republic | 2011 |
Long jump | 6.69 m | Prague, Czech Republic | 2014 |
Javelin | 46.40 m | Ratingen, Germany | 2011 |
800 m | 2:12.90 min | Helsinki, Finland | 2012 |
Heptathlon | 6507 pts | Ratingen, Germany | 2009 |
Pentathlon
editEvent | Record | Venue | Year |
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60 m hurdles | 8.48 s | Tartu, Estonia | 2009 |
High jump | 1.79 m | Riga, Latvia | 2011 |
Shot put | 14.18 m | Paris, France | 2011 |
Long jump | 6.82 m | Tbilisi, Georgia | 2015 |
800 m | 2:12.49 min | Tallinn, Estonia | 2009 |
Pentathlon | 4463 pts | Tallinn, Estonia | 2009 |
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aiga Grabuste". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ "Aiga Grabuste". Latvian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
- ^ Procházka, Michal (17 June 2011). Chernova impresses with 6773pts tally in Kladno – IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 18 June 2011.
External links
edit- Aiga Grabuste at World Athletics
- Aiga Grabuste at Olympedia (archive)
- Aiga Grabuste at Olympics.com
- Aiga Grabuste at Olympic.org (archived)
- Aiga Grabuste at the Latvijas Olimpiskā komiteja (in Latvian) (English translation, archive)