Education
Kansas State University.
Kansas State University.
On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women"s decathlon world record, with a score of 8366. She is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the heptathlon. Her personal best in the 7-event heptathlon of 6599 was set on 4 August at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
During that competition she set the World Heptathlon Best in the Shot Put at 17.31 m (56 ft 91⁄4 in).
In 2002, she also took second in the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the shot put competition.
She is an eight time national champion in the Shot Put. She has also won National Championships in the Discus, 100 metres hurdles twice and Long jump three times. Skujytė graduated with a degree in kinesiology from Kansas State University, where she became the first woman at the school to win multiple National Collegiate Athletic Association championships, capturing titles in the heptathlon in 2001 and 2002.
