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Austra Skujytė

1979 - Today

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Austra Skujytė (born 12 August 1979 in Biržai) is a retired Lithuanian athlete, competing in both the heptathlon and the decathlon. On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8358. She is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the heptathlon. The latter medal was allocated retrospectively following the disqualification in 2016 of original medalist Tatyana Chernova for historic doping offences. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). Austra Skujytė is the 3,095th most popular athlete (down from 2,739th in 2024), the 247th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 228th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Lithuanian Athlete.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1979, Austra Skujytė ranks 552. Before her are Marleen Veldhuis, Lance Bass, Brandon Adams, Pavol Hochschorner, Choo Ja-hyun, and Agnieszka Grochowska. After her are Carlos Bocanegra, Katja Nyberg, Assi Azar, Patrick Owomoyela, Jaska Raatikainen, and Luis Amaranto Perea.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Austra Skujytė ranks 247 out of 328. Before her are Waldemar Tomaszewski (1965), Eduardas Rozentalis (1963), Rimantas Kaukėnas (1977), Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (1986), Edita Pučinskaitė (1975), and Dainius Adomaitis (1974). After her are Gintaras Einikis (1969), Deividas Šemberas (1978), Linas Kleiza (1985), Andrius Pojavis (1983), Rūta Meilutytė (1997), and Rasa Polikevičiūtė (1970).

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Among ATHLETES In Lithuania

Among athletes born in Lithuania, Austra Skujytė ranks 16. Before her are Nijolė Sabaitė (1950), Darius Kasparaitis (1972), Lina Kačiušytė (1963), Laura Asadauskaitė (1984), Galina Murašova (1955), and Daina Gudzinevičiūtė (1965). After her are Mykolas Alekna (2002), Gintarė Scheidt (1982), Kristina Poplavskaja (1972), Birutė Šakickienė (1968), Andrius Gudžius (1991), and Živilė Balčiūnaitė (1979).

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