Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė
Women's Athletics | ||
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Representing Lithuania | ||
European Championships | ||
2012 Helsinki | 100 metres | |
Summer Universiade | ||
2009 Belgrade | 100 metres | |
2011 Shenzhen | 100 metres | |
European U23 Championships | ||
2009 Kaunas | 100 metres | |
2009 Kaunas | 4 x 100 m relay | |
European Junior Championships | ||
2005 Kaunas | 100 metres |
Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė (born 3 May 1987 in Klaipėda) is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for Lithuania.[1]
Grinčikaitė represented Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Chandra Sturrup and Kelly-Ann Baptiste in a time of 11.43 seconds. She qualified for the second round, in which she improved her time to 11.33 seconds and placed second after Torri Edwards. With 11.50 seconds she placed sixth in her semi final race, which meant she was eliminated.[1]
After finishing seventh at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships, Grinčikaitė took the gold medal in the 100 m at the 2009 Summer Universiade, scoring a new personal best of 11.31 seconds in the process.[2] She competed at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but was eliminated in the semi-finals of the women's 60 metres.
Personal bests
Event | Time (sec) | Venue | Date |
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60 metres | 7.26 | Istanbul, Turkey | 11 March 2012 |
100 metres | 11.19 NR | London, United Kingdom | 3 August 2012 |
200 metres | 23.33 | Leiria, Portugal | 22 June 2008 |
- All information taken from IAAF profile.
Achievements
References
- ^ a b "Athlete biography: Lina Grincikaite". Beijing2008.cn. Archived from the original on 2008-09-10. Retrieved August 28, 2008.
- ^ van Kuijen, Hans (2009-07-09). Gold for Serbian junior Spanovic in Long Jump – World University Games Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2009-07-23.
- ^ Did not show in the semifinal.
External links
- Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė at World Athletics
- Lina Grinčikaitė-Samuolė at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1959: Giuseppina Leone (ITA)
- 1961: Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)
- 1963: Renāte Lāce (URS)
- 1965: Irena Kirszenstein (POL)
- 1967: Barbara Ferrell (USA)
- 1970: Renate Meissner (GDR)
- 1973: Mona-Lisa Pursiainen (FIN)
- 1975: Lyudmila Maslakova (URS)
- 1977: Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS)
- 1979: Marlies Göhr (GDR)
- 1981: Beverley Goddard (GBR)
- 1983: Beverly Kinch (GBR)
- 1985: Irina Slyusar (URS)
- 1987: Gwen Torrence (USA)
- 1989: Liliana Allen (CUB)
- 1991: Chryste Gaines (USA)
- 1993: Dahlia Duhaney (JAM)
- 1995: Melanie Paschke (GER)
- 1997: Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)
- 1999: Angela Williams (USA)
- 2001: Abi Oyepitan (GBR)
- 2003: Qin Wangping (CHN)
- 2005: Olga Khalandyreva (RUS)
- 2007: Johanna Manninen (FIN)
- 2009: Lina Grinčikaitė (LTU)
- 2011: Carrie Russell (JAM)
- 2013: Aurieyall Scott (USA)
- 2015: Viktoriya Zyabkina (KAZ)
- 2017: Shashalee Forbes (JAM)
- 2019: Dutee Chand (IND)
- 2021: Patrizia van der Weken (LUX)