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| Dace Ruskule | |
| Fullname: | Dace Ruskule |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Discus throw |
| Collegeteam: | Nebraska Cornhuskers (USA) |
| Club: | Bauska LSPA |
| Coach: | Guntars Gailītis |
| Pb: | Discus throw: 59.68 (2004) |
| Birth Date: | 20 September 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Bauska, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Weight: | 810NaN0 |
| Show-Updates: | yes |
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]