Agnė Šerkšnienė (Orlauskaitė) (born 18 February 1988) is a retired

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n sprinter who specialised in the

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. She was a multiple-time Lithuanian national champion, and took part in

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Career

She missed the

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qualifying standard by just 0.11 seconds, however in the following season she reached the semi-finals of the

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. In 2014, she competed at the

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, where she ran 52.32 seconds in the individual women's 400 metres event. She also placed 11th with the Lithuanian women’s team in 4 × 400 metres relay at the championships, as they ran a time of 3:36.25. In 2014 however she suffered a serious injury which ruled her out of competition for a lengthy period, and decided to start a family with her husband. In February 2018, she broke the nine-day old national indoor record set by

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running 52.93 seconds in Switzerland. She competed for Lithuania in the 400 metres at the delayed

, held in

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, Japan in 2021. In September 2022, she announced about her retirement from professional sport at the age of 34 years-old with her final race being in Switzerland. She was honoured with a special prize during the Lithuanian Athletics Federation's festive evening held in Palanga in early January 2023.

Personal life

She was educated at Kaunas Pilėnai Secondary School and graduated in economics in 2011 from

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. Her hobbies include playing the piano and swimming. She married Andrius Šerkšnas with whom she had a daughter, Audra, born in 2015. They moved to Switzerland in 2011 where he was employed by the

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team Alfa Romeo.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Serksniene, Agne 1988 births Living people Lithuanian female sprinters Sportspeople from Kaunas Competitors at the 2011 Summer Universiade Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Lithuania Olympic female sprinters