Airinė Palšytė (born 13 July 1992) is a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

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er. She won the gold medal at the 2017 European Indoor Championships.

Personal life

Palšytė was born in

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, Lithuania. Her father Aurimas Palšis was a professional basketball player. In 1998, Palšytė enrolled at the Simono Stanevičiaus Secondary School in

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. From 2006 to 2010, she studied at Žemyna's gymnasium, also in Vilnius. In 2010, she started studying business information management at

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, Faculty of Communications. After completing her undergraduate degree, she began her Master's studies at Vilnius University, Faculty of Economics (marketing and integrated communications). Her boyfriend is a Lithuanian sprinter (specialising in 60, 100 and 200 meters)

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Athletic career

At the

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, Palšytė finished second and won her first senior national championships medal. At the

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, she won her first national gold medal. Palšytė competed at the Olympic Games in

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, and

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. She won the silver medal at the 2016 European Championships. She won the gold medal at the 2017 European Indoor Championships and the bronze medal at the 2019 European Indoor Championships. Her personal best is 2.01 metres, achieved in March 2017 when she won gold at the European Indoor Championships. It was also a new national high jump record. Her personal best outdoors jump is 1.98 metres, achieved in both July and August 2014 in Kaunas and

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Achievements

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Palsyte, Airine 1992 births Living people Lithuanian female high jumpers Sportspeople from Kaunas Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Lithuania World Athletics Championships athletes for Lithuania European Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Indoor Championships winners Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) Universiade gold medalists for Lithuania Universiade silver medalists for Lithuania Universiade bronze medalists for Lithuania Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade