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Aiga Grabuste

Aiga Grabuste
Aiga Grabuste at the 2011 TNT - Fortuna Meeting in Kladno
Personal information
NationalityLatvian
Born (1988-03-24) 24 March 1988 (age 37)
Rēzekne, Latvia[1]
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Country Latvia
SportTrack and field
EventHeptathlon
Achievements and titles
Personal bestHeptathlon: 6414 points
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Latvia
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Helsinki Heptathlon

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.

Career

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Grabuste became the 2007 European Junior champion in the heptathlon in Hengelo, Netherlands.[3] She set a then personal best of 6396 points at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, winning the gold medal.[4]

She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, planning eighteenth overall with a tally of 6050 points.[5]

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.[6][7]

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.[8]

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.[9] She competed at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.[10]

Achievements

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Year Competition Venue Position Notes
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

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Heptathlon

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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

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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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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Aiga Grabuste". Latvian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 4 October 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
  3. ^ "European Junior Championships". World Athletics. 19 July 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  4. ^ "Kaunas European U23 Championships". World Athletics. 16 July 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Beijing 2008". Olympics.com. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  6. ^ "IAAF World Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 12 March 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Jessica Ennis-Hill to get 2011 Worlds gold after Chernova results annulled". BBC Sport. 29 November 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  8. ^ Procházka, Michal (17 June 2011). Chernova impresses with 6773pts tally in Kladno – IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 18 June 2011.
  9. ^ "Osipenko Loses Silver Medal from 2012 Helsinki Euro Champs in Heptathlon for Doping". Watch Athletics. 24 January 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  10. ^ "The XXX Olympic Games". World Athletics. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
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Awards
Preceded by Latvian Rising Sportspersonality of the Year
2007 		Succeeded by