| Živilė Balčiūnaitė | |
| Birth Date: | 3 April 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Country: | Lithuania |
| Sport: | Running |
| Regionals: | 1st, 2010 |
| Nationals: | 1st, 2000 2nd, 2001, 2009 |
Živilė Balčiūnaitė (born 3 April 1979[1] in Vilnius) is a Lithuanian Marathon runner.
Balčiūnaitė finished 4th at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. She also competed in the same event at the 2004 Olympics, finishing 14th. She finished 11th at the 2008 Olympics.[1]
In April 2011, the Athletics Federation of Lithuania announced Balčiūnaitė has been banned for two years for a positive drug test and was stripped of her marathon gold medal from the 2010 European Athletics Championships.[2]
Balčiūnaitė received an eight year ban in July 2016 by the Athletics Federation of Lithuania after testing positive for meldonium.[3]
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 10th | 3000 m | 9:34.01 | |||
| 1999 | 5th | 10,000 m | 33:47.13 | |||
| 2001 | 5th | 10,000 m | 34:04.34 | |||
| 2004 | 14th | Marathon | 2:35:01 | |||
| 2006 | 4th | Marathon | 2:31:01 | |||
| 2007 | Osaka, Japan | Marathon | 2:43:28 | |||
| 2008 | Beijing, China | 11th | Marathon | 2:29:33 | ||
| 2009 | Berlin, Germany | 19th | Marathon | 2:31:06 | ||
| 2010 | Barcelona, Spain | dq | Marathon | 2:31:14 | ||
| 2013 | Moscow, Russia | 20th | Marathon | 2:41:09 SB | ||