Genovaitė Ona Strigaitė (later Jagelavičienė, born 28 May 1942) is a retired

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n rower who won one gold and one silver medal in the eights event at the European Championships of 1963–1964. Between 1948 and 1958 Strigaitė and her family lived in exile in Siberia. In 1965 she graduated from the

Vilnius University Vilnius University ( Lithuanian: ''Vilniaus universitetas'') is a public research university, which is the first and largest university in Lithuania, as well as one of the oldest and most prominent higher education institutions in Central and Ea ...

with a degree in physics and mathematics. In 1963–1965 she worked as a rowing coach, between 1966 and 1992 as a technician at the Vilnius Radio, and in 1992–2008 as a welfare functionary at the Vilnius City Office. Her husband

Juozas Jagelavičius Juozas Aleksandras Jagelavičius (12 January 1939 – 17 June 2000) was a Lithuanian rower. He competed for the Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transc ...

was also an international rower.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Strigaite, Genovaite 1942 births Living people Lithuanian female rowers Soviet female rowers European Rowing Championships medalists