Sanita Pušpure

[6] She moved to Ireland in 2006, when her husband Kaspar got a job at Dublin Airport,[7][2] and they initially lived in Cork.

The duo finished in twelfth place at the 2011 World Championships, where the top eight teams qualified for the Olympics.

[10] At the Olympic qualification event in Lucerne, Switzerland, she placed second in her heat in order to make it through to the semi-final.

[13] She was selected for the Irish team at the Games as the country's only rowing competitor, and their first female single sculler since the 1980 Summer Olympics.

[15] Puspure was selected as a 2021 Tokyo Olympian but had to settle for the B final in the women's single scull.