Career
Born in Pļaviņas, she trained with the Dynamo club in Riga. Jaunzeme was third in the javelin at the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Championships in 1956, earning herself a place on the Soviet Olympic team for the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia. She set an Olympic record in the first round of the event and went on to improve her mark twice more, ending up with a winning throw of 53.86 metres.
She began training to be a doctor while still competing in the javelin and was the silver medallist at the 1957 World University Games, as well as winning at the championships organised by the International Union of Students (UIE).
She became a qualified doctor in 1960 and went on to perform in the fields of traumatology and plastic surgery.