Aiga Grabuste

Grabuste became the 2007 European Junior champion in the heptathlon in Hengelo, Netherlands.^[3] She set a then personal best of 6396 points at the 2009 European Athletics U23 Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania, winning the gold medal.^[4]

She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, planning eighteenth overall with a tally of 6050 points.^[5]

In the indoor women's pentathlon, she was credited with a seventh place finish at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha after initially placing eighth, but Russian athlete Tatyana Chernova was subsequently stripped of two years of results, up to 14 August 2011.^[6][7]

She placed tenth at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships. At the TNT - Fortuna Meeting in 2011 she set bests in the 200 metres, long jump and 800 metres events to take third overall with a score of 6252 points.^[8]

At the 2012 European Athletics Championships Grabuste initially finished in fourth place overall after a hard fight with fellow Latvian Laura Ikauniece, finishing 10 points behind her. Eighteen months later-on however, she was rewarded with the bronze medal, as a result of the disqualification of Ukrainian athlete Lyudmyla Yosypenko for use of prohibited substances.^[9] She competed at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England.^[10]