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Laura Asadauskaitė

Laura Asadauskaitė
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Laura Asadauskaitė in victory ceremony at 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1984-02-28) February 28, 1984 (age 32)
Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 48 kg (106 lb)
Sport
Country  Lithuania
Sport Modern Pentathlon
Coached by Jevgenij Kliosov, Andrejus Zadneprovskis
Updated on 4 August 2016.

Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė (born February 28, 1984 in Vilnius) is a female Lithuanian modern pentathlete. She won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and achieved an Olympic record score. Asadauskaitė also competed in two other Olympics, 2008 in Beijing and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, and has been European and World Champion in pentathlon.

In 2009 Asadauskaitė married modern pentathlete Andrejus Zadneprovskis, a former world champion who won two Olympic medals. The following year she gave birth to a daughter. She is a graduate of Mykolas Romeris University, majoring in Administration and European Union Policy.



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