Eglė Staišiūnaitė (born 30 September 1988) is a Lithuanian

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

who specialises in the

400 m hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, onc ...

Career

Staišiūnaitė was born on 30 September 1988 in

Klaipėda Klaipėda ( ; ) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the List of cities in Lithuania, third-largest city in Lithuania, the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, fifth-largest city in the Baltic States, and the capi ...

. Collegiately, Staišiūnaitė ran for the

Wisconsin Badgers track and field The Wisconsin Badgers are the athletic teams representing the University of Wisconsin–Madison. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) sub-level), prim ...

team. Staišiūnaitė competed in the 2012 European Championships in Athletics and reached 15th place in the 400 m hurdles. She has competed for Lithuania in the Olympics (

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) and World Championships (

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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* 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Klaipėda Lithuanian female hurdlers Wisconsin Badgers women's track and field athletes Olympic athletes for Lithuania Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Lithuania {{Lithuania-athletics-bio-stub