Eglė Balčiūnaitė

Eglė Balčiūnaitė (born 31 October 1988 in Šiauliai) is a former track and field middle-distance runner who competed internationally for Lithuania. She competed at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In 2010, she became the first Lithuanian track and field athlete to reach the final of the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

Career Balčiūnaitė defeated her more experienced compatriot Irina Krakoviak in a Lithuanian pre-Olympic selection race and subsequently competed in the 2008 Olympics in 800 metres distance, where she finished in a credible 22nd place, despite being the youngest member of the Lithuanian Olympic team. She participated in the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships where she achieved her personal best and finished fifth in the indoor 800 m discipline in Doha, Qatar), and in doing so, became the first Lithuanian track and field athlete to reach the final of the World Indoor Championships.

Balčiūnaitė won a bronze medal over 800 metres at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia. She was honored with a special prize during a Lithuanian Athletics Federation festive evening held in Palanga in early January 2023.

Personal life She is from the Šiauliai Pietinis district of Lithuania.

Personal records 800 m – 1:59.29 s (2010, outdoor, Monaco Diamond League) 800 m – 2:01.23 s (2011, indoor, Germany, national record) 400 m – 53.47 s (2010, indoor, Portugal, national record)