Raminta Dvariškytė (born 1 February 1990) is a Lithuanian swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] She represented her nation Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has claimed multiple Lithuanian championship titles and two national records in both the breaststroke and medley relay events.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Raminta Dvariškytė |
| National team | |
| Born | (1990-02-01) 1 February 1990 (age 32) Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
| Club | Vilniaus Vandens Sporto Mokykla (LTU) |
| College team | Southern Methodist University (U.S.) |
Dvariskyte competed for Lithuania in the women's 200 m breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Leading up to the Games, she fired off her own lifetime best in 2:33.35 to clear an insurmountable FINA B-cut by just 0.07 of a second at the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[2][3] Dvariskyte topped the field in heat one by approximately five seconds ahead of Finland's Noora Laukkanen and Brazil's Tatiane Sakemi in 2:33.32, slicing 0.03 seconds off her lifetime best from the Europeans five months earlier. Dvariskyte failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-fifth overall out of forty-one swimmers in the prelims.[4][5]
At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Dvariskyte helped out her team to set two Lithuanian records in the preliminary heats of both freestyle and medley relays, clocking at 3:54.97 and 4:12.30, respectively.[6][7]
Dvariškytė is a member of the swimming team, along with her compatriot Mindaugas Sadauskas for the SMU Mustangs, and also a student in real estate and finance at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
She is married to Omar Andrés Pinzón García, a Colombian swimmer who represented Colombia in the 2004 and 2008 olympics, they have a son named Lucas Pinzón.