Birutė Kalėdienė

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Birutė Kalėdienė

Birutė Kalėdienė at the 1964 Olympics

Personal information

Native name

Birute Viktorovna Kaledene (Zalogaytite-)
Бируте Викторовна Каледене (Залогайтите-)

Born

2 November 1934 (age 90)
Baltrušiai, Lithuania

Height

1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Weight

77 kg (170 lb)

Sport

Javelin throw

Club

Žalgiris, Kaunas

Achievements and titles

Personal best

57.49 m (1958)

Medal record

Representing Soviet Union

Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	Javelin throw
European Athletics Championships
	1958 Stockholm	Javelin throw

Birutė Kalėdienė (née Zalogaitytė, Russian: Бируте Викторовна Каледене; born 2 November 1934, Baltrušiai, Marijampolė County) is a retired Lithuanian javelin thrower who won a silver medal for the Soviet Union at the 1958 European Championships. She competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and finished in third and fourth place, respectively.^[1]

Life

Kalėdienė was born in Lithuania in 1934. She started training to throw javelin in 1952 and won the Soviet titles in 1958–60. In 1958 she became the first Lithuanian athlete to set a world record (57.49 m) and was selected as the Lithuanian athlete of the year.

Kalėdienė retired in 1966 to work as a coach in Kaunas. She was a board member of Ąžuolyno Kaunas sports club and continued to compete in the masters category. In 2005, she won a world title in the F70 (Masters) category.^[1]

In 2006 she made a Javelin throw of 30m 54 cm as a masters woman in her weight category. In 2017 it was the third longest throw of all time.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Birutė Kalėdienė Archived 22 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Sports-Reference.com
^ "Javelin Throw ALL-TIME Rankings". www.mastersathletics.net. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2017.

Lithuanian Sportsperson of the Year

Olympic sports

Overall (1956-2013)	Algirdas Šocikas 1956 Jonas Pipynė 1957 Birutė Kalėdienė 1958 Adolfas Varanauskas 1959 1963 Antanas Bagdonavičius, Zigmas Jukna 1960 1961 Antanas Vaupšas 1962 Ričardas Tamulis 1964 Modestas Paulauskas 1965 1966 1967 1969 1970 1971 1972 Danas Pozniakas 1968 Vladas Česiūnas 1973 1974 Česlovas Jazerskis 1975 Angelė Rupšienė 1976 Vilhelmina Bardauskienė 1977 1978 Lina Kačiušytė 1979 1980 Robertas Žulpa 1981 Vladas Turla 1982 Ana Ambrazienė 1983 Arvydas Sabonis 1984 1985 1986 1996 Šarūnas Marčiulionis 1987 1989 1990 1991 Gintautas Umaras 1988 Romas Ubartas 1992 Vitalijus Karpačiauskas 1993 Raimundas Mažuolis 1994 Remigijus Lupeikis 1995 Raimondas Šiugždinis 1997 Diana Žiliūtė 1998 Edita Pučinskaitė 1999 Virgilijus Alekna 2000 2004 2005 2006 Rasa Polikevičiūtė 2001 Raimondas Rumšas 2002 Šarūnas Jasikevičius 2003 Ramūnas Šiškauskas 2007 Edvinas Krungolcas 2008 Simona Krupeckaitė 2009 2010 Laura Asadauskaitė 2011 Rūta Meilutytė 2012 2013
Men (since 2014)	Jevgenij Shuklin 2014 Ramūnas Navardauskas 2015 Aurimas Didžbalis 2016 Andrius Gudžius 2017 2018 Danas Rapšys 2019 Mindaugas Griškonis 2021 Mykolas Alekna 2022
Women (since 2014)	Rūta Meilutytė 2014 2018 2022 Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė 2015 2019 2021 Simona Krupeckaitė 2016 Airinė Palšytė 2017
Men's team (2014-2019)	Ritter/Maščinskas 2014 Men's National Basketball Team 2015 Ritter/Griškonis 2016 Adomavičius/Maščinskas/Džiaugys/Nemeravičius 2017 Adomavičius/Maščinskas/Nemeravičius/Ritter 2018 Beliavičius/Užupis/Vingelis/Pukelis 2019
Women's team (2014-2019)	Valčiukaitė/Vištartaitė 2014 2015 2016 Valčiukaitė/Adomavičiūtė 2017 2018 Krupeckaitė/Marozaitė 2019
Team (since 2021)	Valčiukaitė/Vištartaitė 2021 Maldonis/Olijnikas 2022

Paralympic sports

Men (since 2021)	Edgaras Matakas 2021 2022
Women (since 2021)	Oksana Dobrovolskaja 2021 Raimeda Bučinskytė 2022
Team (since 2021)	National Men's Goalball Team 2021 National Wheelchair Basketball Team 2022