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Donata Karalienė (née Vištartaitė, born 11 June 1989) is a Lithuanian rower and Olympic bronze medalist at the Rio 2016 Games. She is also known for winning gold medals at the 2013 World Rowing Championships, and the 2012 and 2013 European Rowing Championships.[1]

Donata Karalienė

Vištartaitė (left) and Milda Valčiukaitė
Personal information
Birth name	Donata Vištartaitė
Born	(1989-06-11) 11 June 1989 (age 32) Gūbriai, Lithuania
Height	171 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)[1]
Medal record Women's rowing Representing  Lithuania Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Double sculls World Championships 2013 Chungju W2x European Championships 2012 Varese W1x 2013 Sevilla W2x 2014 Belgrade W2x 2021 Varese W2x 2011 Plovdiv W1x World U23 Championships 2010 Brest W1x 2011 Amsterdam W1x Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju W2x

Career

Karaliene, competing under her maiden name Vištartaitė, had a successful junior career, finishing 6th at her first Junior World Championships in 2006, and following that by winning a bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Championships and gold at the 2010 and 2011 Under 23 World Championships.[2][3][4][5]

Karaliene won the women's single sculls at the 2012 European Championships, having won bronze the year before.[6][7]

Switching to the double sculls, Karaliene teamed up with Milda Valčiukaitė. The pair went unbeaten in their first season, winning the 2013 World Championships and the 2013 European Championships.[2][8][9] Following this, the team narrowly missed out on a medal at the 2014 World Championships, but won the silver medal at the 2014 and 2015 European Championships.[10][11][12]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Karaliene and Valčiukaitė won the bronze medal in the women's double sculls, Lithuania's first women's rowing medal since 2000.[13]

Biography

Karaliene was originally a track athlete, competing in the middle distance events. When her coach stopped coaching, she continued without support. A rowing coach visited her home town looking for talented athletes with the potential to become rowers. He convinced her to take up rowing. She was very successful, winning the Lithuanian junior championships after only one year of rowing training. Because of this success, she was invited to attend a sports boarding school in Kaunas.[2]

Studying in Lithuanian Academy of Physical Education.[14] She lives in Kaunas.[1]

References

На других языках

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- [en] Donata Karalienė

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[it] Donata Vištartaitė

Donata Vištartaitė (Gūbriai, 11 giugno 1989) è una canottiera lituana.

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[ru] Виштартайте, Доната

Доната Виштартайте (лит. Donata Vištartaitė; род. 11 июня 1989[1][2], Gūbriai[d], Шилальский район), в замужестве Каралене (лит. Karaliene) — литовская гребчиха, выступавшая за сборную Литвы по академической гребле в период 2006—2016 годов. Бронзовая призёрка летних Олимпийских игр в Рио-де-Жанейро, чемпионка мира и Европы, победительница и призёрка многих регат национального значения.

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