Modesta Justė Morauskaitė (born 2 October 1995) is a

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n sprinter, who specialises in the

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and competed at the

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. She also competed at an international level as a junior

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Snowboarding career

In 2011 she became the first Lithuanian national champion in Snowboarding Cross event at Lithuanian Snowboarding Championships. She participated in FIS Junior Snowboarding Championships in Italy in 2011, and also competed at the same championships in Spain in 2012 and in 2013 in Turkey.

Athletics career

In 2014 Morauskaitė competed at the

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, where she ran 55.85 seconds in the individual 400m event. She also placed 11th with the Lithuanian women’s team in 4 × 400 m relay at the championships as they ran a time of 3:36.25. Competing at the IAAF World Indoor Tour competition held in Madrid in February 2018, she ran the 400 m distance in 53.21 seconds and improved the Lithuanian record held previously by

Eglė Balčiūnaitė Eglė Balčiūnaitė (born 31 October 1988 in Šiauliai) is a track and field middle-distance runner who competes internationally for Lithuania. She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In 201 ...

. However, her record was broken just nine days later by Agnė Šerkšnienė who ran 52.93 seconds in Switzerland. She set a new Lithuanian national indoor record again when she ran the 400m in 52.02 seconds at the Ciudad de Valencia competition held in Valencia, Spain, on February 2, 2022. In June 2023, she competed for Lithuania at the

2023 European Athletics Team Championships The 2023 European Athletics Team Championships (ETC) in athletics was held at Stadion Śląski in Chorzów, Poland, from 20 to 25 June 2023. The event was initially planned to be held in Madrid, but after European Athletics and European Olymp ...

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, Poland running 51.61 seconds in the individual 400 metres. She subsequently competed at the

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, Hungary winning her heat in 51.05 seconds and racing in the semi-finals but did not qualify for the final. She ran in the semi-finals of the 400 metres at the

2024 European Athletics Championships The 26th European Athletics Championships were held from 7 to 12 June 2024 at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy. It was the third time Italy staged this sporting event after the inaugural 1934 European Athletics Championships, 1934 edition in T ...

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, Italy in June 2024. She ran 51.33 seconds to finish fourth in the repechage round for the 400 metres at the

in Paris, France. In January 2025, at the World Athletics Continental Bronze Tour in Jyväskylä, Finland, she ran the 300 meters in 37.62 seconds, breaking the national record for the infrequently run event that had stood since 2008, by 0.49 seconds.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morauskaite, Modesta Juste 1995 births Living people Lithuanian female sprinters Athletes from Vilnius Snowboarders European Games competitors for Lithuania Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 European Games 21st-century Lithuanian sportswomen Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Lithuania