Laimutė Baikauskaitė
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Women's Athletics | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1988 Seoul | 1.500 metres |
Laimutė Baikauskaitė (born June 10, 1956 in Gaideliai, Klaipėda County) is a retired female middle distance runner, who represented the USSR and later Lithuania. She competed mainly in the 1500 metres, and won an Olympic silver medal in 1988 with a strong final one hundred meter sprint, though well behind winner Paula Ivan of Romania. In that Olympic final, she set a Lithuanian record (4:00.24).
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- People from Šilutė District Municipality
- Soviet female middle-distance runners
- Lithuanian female middle-distance runners
- Olympic athletes for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Lithuanian athletics biography stubs
- Soviet athletics Olympic medalist stubs