Aiga Grabuste (born 24 March 1988, in Rēzekne) is a Latvian track and field athlete competing in heptathlon. She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won bronze medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships, finishing just 10 points behind fellow Latvian Laura Ikauniece.
Career Grabuste became the 2007 European Junior champion in the heptathlon in Hengelo, Netherlands. She set a then personal best of 6396 points at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, winning the gold medal.
She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, planning eighteenth overall with a tally of 6050 points.
In the indoor women's pentathlon, she was credited with a seventh-place finish at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha after initially placing eighth, but Russian athlete Tatyana Chernova was subsequently stripped of two years of results, up to 14 August 2011.
She placed tenth at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships. At the TNT - Fortuna Meeting in 2011 she set bests in the 200 metres, long jump and 800 metres events to take third overall with a score of 6252 points.Procházka, Michal (17 June 2011). Chernova impresses with 6773pts tally in Kladno – IAAF Combined Events Challenge. IAAF. Retrieved on 18 June 2011.
At the 2012 European Athletics Championships Grabuste initially finished in fourth place overall after a hard fight with fellow Latvian Laura Ikauniece, finishing 10 points behind her. Eighteen months later-on however, she was rewarded with the bronze medal, as a result of the disqualification of Ukrainian athlete Lyudmyla Yosypenko for use of prohibited substances. She competed at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.
Achievements 2006World Junior Championships Beijing, China 9th5443 pts14.57-1.68-12.82-25.70-5.80-40.67-2:28.922007European Junior Championships Hengelo, Netherlands 1st 592014.26-1.69-14.26-25.01-6.32-41.21-2:21.85World ChampionshipsOsaka, Japan 17th 6019 pts13.84-1.77-13.04-24.98-6.02-45.76-2:19.972008Olympic GamesBeijing, China 19th 6050 pts13.78-1.77-12.70-24.71-6.36-39.02-2:16.872009European U23 ChampionshipsKaunas, Lithuania 1st6396 pts13.66-1.77-14.56-24.73-6.62-46.11-2:17.74World ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany 13th 6033 pts13.78-1.71-13.26-25.49-6.40-43.52-2:17.432010World Indoor ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar 8th 4013 pts8.94-1.63-12.33-6.05-2:23.842011European Indoor ChampionshipsParis, France 10th 4342 pts8.68-1.71-14.18-6.29-2:25.442012European ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland 3rd6325 pts13.66–1.74–13.52–24.47–6.46–45.85–2:12.90Olympic GamesLondon, United Kingdom33rdDNF13.65-1.77-13.52-0.00-0.00-0.00
Personal bests
Heptathlon EventRecordVenueYear100 m hurdles13.46 sRatingen, Germany2011High jump1.77 mBeijing, China2008Shot put14.56 mKaunas, Lithuania2009200 m24.42 sKladno, Czech Republic2011Long jump6.69 mPrague, Czech Republic2014Javelin46.40 mRatingen, Germany2011800 m2:12.90 minHelsinki, Finland2012Heptathlon6507 ptsRatingen, Germany2009
Pentathlon EventRecordVenueYear60 m hurdles8.48 sTartu, Estonia2009High jump1.79 mRiga, Latvia2011Shot put14.18 mParis, France2011Long jump6.82 mTbilisi, Georgia2015800 m2:12.49 minTallinn, Estonia2009Pentathlon4463 ptsTallinn, Estonia2009
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