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Aldona Grigaliūnienė

Lithuanian paralympic athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ4713952 ↗
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Aldona Grigaliūnienė is a Paralympian athlete from Lithuania competing mainly in category F37-38 shot put events. She won at the 2004 paralympics but she was beaten to silver in 2008.

Life

She competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she won a gold medal in the women's F34-37 long jump event.

After missing the 2000 Summer Paralympics she returned to the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There she won a gold medal in the women's F37-38 shot put event. Four years later in 2008 in Beijing, People's Republic of China she failed in defending her title winning the silver medal and losing out to Mi Na of China.

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The public source identifies “Aldona Grigaliūnienė” as lithuanian paralympic athlete. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aldona, Grigaliūnienė and Lithuanian.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2008, 1996, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-07-31. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aldona, Grigaliūnienė and Lithuanian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Aldona Grigaliūnienė” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.