Personal information | |
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Full name | Dace Ruskule |
Nationality | ![]() |
Born | Bauska, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union | 20 September 1981
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Discus throw |
College team | Nebraska Cornhuskers (USA) |
Club | Bauska LSPA |
Coached by | Guntars Gailītis |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | Discus throw: 59.68 (2004) |
Dace Ruskule (born September 20, 1981) is a retired Latvian discus thrower. [1] She represented her nation Latvia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and later became a titleholder in women's discus throw at the 2006 NCAA Track and Field Championships in Sacramento, California, representing her collegiate team Nebraska Cornhuskers in the United States. [2] [3]
Ruskule qualified for the women's discus throw at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by achieving a personal best of 59.68 from the Latvian Championships in Riga. [4] She threw a discus with a satisfying distance of 57.43 metres on her second attempt in the prelims, but fell short to compete for the final round with a twenty-eighth overall place effort. [5] [6]