Aiga Grabuste

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Aiga Grabuste (born 24 March 1988, in Rēzekne)[1] 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.

Career

Grabuste became the 2007 European Junior champion in the heptathlon in Hengelo, Netherlands.[2] She set a then personal best of 6396 points at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, winning the gold medal.[3]

She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, planning eighteenth overall with a tally of 6050 points.[4]

In the indoor women's pentathlon, she was credited with a seventh place finish at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha after initially placing eighth, but Russian athlete Tatyana Chernova was subsequently stripped of two years of results, up to 14 August 2011.[5][6]

She placed 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.[7]

At the 2012 European Athletics Championships Grabuste initially finished in fourth place overall after a hard fight with fellow Latvian Laura Ikauniece, finishing 10 points behind her. Eighteen months later-on however, she was rewarded with the bronze medal, as a result of the disqualification of Ukrainian athlete Lyudmyla Yosypenko for use of prohibited substances.[8] She competed at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.[9]

Achievements

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

Heptathlon

Event Record Venue Year
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

Event Record Venue Year
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

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Awards
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