Rūta Kate Lasmane (born 17 December 2000) is a Latvian track and field athlete. She is a multiple time Latvian national champion in the

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and

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. She won the triple jump at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships and competed at the

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Early life

Born and raised in

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, Latvia, she began jumping at twelve years-old. She began at

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in September 2020 to study psychology.

Career

She was a bronze medalist in the triple jump at the European U20 Athletics Championships in Boras in 2019. She was a bronze medalist in the triple jump at the European U23 Athletics Championships in

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in 2021. She won a bronze medal in the triple jump competition of the 2021

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Indoor Athletics Championships, breaking the Latvian indoor record held by Gundega Sproģi from 1999, with a jump of 14.15 metres. Lasmane made her senior international debut at the

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, Germany, in the triple jump, but did not reach the final. In May 2023, she finished second in the triple jump in division two of the

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competition in Chorzow, Poland. She won the NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in

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with a personal best distance of 14.47 metres. She competed in the triple jump at the

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, France, where she jumped 13.76 metres but did not qualify for the final. She suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in 2025 which required surgery, and prevented her from attempting to retain her NCAA Indoor title in March 2025.

Personal life

Her father is Olympic rower

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and her brother is Latvian Olympic basketball player

Kārlis Lasmanis Kārlis Pauls Lasmanis (born 8 April 1994) is a Latvian basketball player for the Latvian 3x3 national team. He represented Latvia at the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi- ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lasmane, Ruta Kate 2000 births Living people Latvian female triple jumpers Latvian female long jumpers European Games competitors for Latvia Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Latvia