Austra Skujytė

Austra Skujytė (born 12 August 1979 in Biržai) is a retired Lithuanian athlete, competing in both the heptathlon and the decathlon.

On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8358.

The latter medal was allocated retrospectively following the disqualification in 2016 of original medalist Tatyana Chernova for historic doping offences.

She has also won National Championships in the Discus, 100 metres hurdles twice and Long jump three times.

[5] Skujytė graduated with a degree in kinesiology from Kansas State University, where she became the first woman at the school to win multiple NCAA championships, capturing titles in the heptathlon in 2001 and 2002.