Rūta Paškauskienė

Rūta Paškauskienė, born Garkauskaitė ( born March 29, 1977 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, USSR ) is a table tennis player from Lithuania, and multiple European champion.

Achievements

Paškauskienės parents were table tennis coach. At the national championships of Lithuania, she won twelve times the singles title for the first time as a 14- year-old, and 17 times in doubles and mixed doubles. She was nominated for the European Youth Championship 1993. Since 1993, she participated in thirteen World Championships. They never came near of medal ranks. In the European ranking tournament TOP12 was 2010 Fifth.

The most successful she was at the European Championships, where she previously won a title six times, namely in 2008 in singles, 2010 doubles with Oksana Fadeeva ( Russia) and 2000, 2005, 2007 and 2009 in the Mixed with Aleksandar Karakasevic (Serbia). The semi-finals she reached 1994, 1996, 2002 and 2009 in a double and single in 2009 and 2010. In 2002, she lost the final in mixed doubles against Lucjan Blaszczyk / Ni Xialian ( Poland / Luxembourg ).

Three times Paškauskienė represented her country at the Olympic Games: in 1996, 2000 and 2008. Doing so, they came in 2000 in the doubles competition in the Round of 16

Activities in Germany

In 1997 Paškauskienė by the Lithuanian club Kaunas to Germany first to TTC Aces home in the Bundesliga and a year later to 3B Berlin, where she remained until 2004. Then she went for a liaison with Damien Eloi to France.

Private

Rūta Paškauskienė is a niece of the former Soviet national team Asta Giedraitytė - Stankienė. At the University of Kaunas, she studied sports to become a teacher and graduated as best of her year with a diploma. In 1998 she married and then was Buda Gedes Rūta Būdienė. Later she appeared under the name Rūta Paškauskienė.

Results from the ITTF database