Full name Dace Ruskule Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Sport Athletics Events Discus throw | Nationality Latvia Weight 81 kg (179 lb) Name Dace Ruskule | |
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Born 20 September 1981 (age 42) ( 1981-09-20 ) Bauska, Latvian SSR,
Soviet Union College team Nebraska Cornhuskers
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Dace Ruskule (born September 20, 1981 in Bauska) is a retired Latvian discus thrower. 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.
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. 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.
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