Rasa DrazdauskaitÄ—
Rasa Drazdauskaitė ( born March 20, 1981 in Šiauliai) is a Lithuanian middle and long distance runner.
In 2002, she retired at the Indoor Athletics European Championships in Vienna and at the European Championships in Munich about 1500 m from each in the flow.
In the U23 European Athletics Championships 2003, she came over 1500 m in second place finish, but was transferred in the subsequent doping control the intake of Stanozolol and disqualified against doping regulations relating to that infringement and banned for two years.
In 2007 she became after her move to the 42,195 - km - distance Tenth at Frankfurt Marathon. The following year she was nominated for a sixth place at the Hamburg Marathon for the Olympic Games in Beijing, during their marathon they broke in at number 37.
In 2009 she was a second overall at the Belgrade Marathon World Military Champion and Fifth at Frankfurt Marathon. In 2010 she arrived at the European Championships in Barcelona on the 15th Place. At the Athens Marathon she asked with a course record 2:31:06 h and simultaneously defended their military world title. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she took part in the marathon and came in a new personal best of 2:29:29 h on the 27th place.
National title she won previously once more than 800 m ( 2002), four times more than 1500 m ( 1999, 2002, 2006, 2007 ), three times in cross country (2001-2003 ) and twice in the 10,000 m. In the hall, she was three times over 800 m (1999, 2000, 2002 ), four times more than 1500 m ( 1998-2000), once above 3000 m (2003 ) and once in the 1500 m steeplechase (2006) Lithuanian Champion.
Rasa Drazdauskaitė runs for the club Šviesos Kariai, her coach is Česlovas Kundrotas. She is 1,74 m tall and weighs 61 kg.
Personal Best
- 800 m: 2:02,24 min, June 27, 2003, Gdansk Hall: 2:09,61 min 23 January, 2007, Tallinn
- Hall: 4:17,88 min, February 11, 2007, Karlsruhe, Germany