Modesta Justė Morauskaitė
 Morauskaitė in 2020 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Lithuanian |
| Born | 2 October 1995 Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics, Snowboarding |
Modesta Justė Morauskaitė (born 2 October 1995) is a Lithuanian sprinter, who specialises in the 400 metres and competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. She also competed at an international level as a junior snowboarder.
Snowboarding career
[edit]In 2011 she became the first Lithuanian national champion in Snowboarding Cross event at Lithuanian Snowboarding Championships.[1] 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.[2]
Athletics career
[edit]In 2014 Morauskaitė competed at the 2014 European Athletics Championships, where she ran 55.85 seconds in the individual 400m event.[3] 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.[4]
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. However, her record was broken just nine days later by Agnė Šerkšnienė who ran 52.93 seconds in Switzerland.[1]
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.[5]
In June 2023, she competed for Lithuania at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Silesia, Poland running 51.61 seconds in the individual 400 metres.[6] She subsequently competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary winning her heat in 51.05 seconds and racing in the semi-finals but did not qualify for the final.[7]
She ran in the semi-finals of the 400 metres at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy in June 2024.[8] She ran 51.33 seconds to finish fourth in the repechage round for the 400 metres at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France.[9]
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.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Snieglentę iškeitusi į bėgimo taką". Sportas (in Lithuanian). April 17, 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "Modesta Juste MORAUSKAITE". fis-ski.com. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "2014 European Championships". World Athletics. 12 August 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "Zurich European Championships". World Athletics. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "M.J. Morauskaitė: mano pastangos – ne veltui". Kauno.diena.lt (in Lithuanian). 4 Feb 2022. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "Morauskaitė and Zarankaitė performed best in the opening of the European Team Championship". Madeinvilinius.lt. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "Pusfinalio barjero neperžengusi M.Morauskaitė: „Fiziškai nebuvau pajėgi bėgti, bet didžiuojuosi savimi dėl ramios psichologinės būklės"". Sportas.lt. 22 August 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "MJ Morauskaitė, who has absorbed another blow of fate: I will fight until the last second". Kaunieciams.lt. 10 June 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "MJ Morauskaitė, who achieved her best result of the season once again in Paris: I am incredibly happy". alfa.lt. August 6, 2024. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
- ^ "M. Morauskaitė, who broke the Lithuanian record: this is a great start to a new stage". alfa.lt. 30 Jan 2025. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
