Agnese Pastare (born 27 October 1988) is a

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race walker Race walking, or racewalking, is a long-distance discipline within the sport of athletics. Although a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times. Race judges carefully asses ...

. She was born in

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, and is a student of

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, Faculty of Transport and Mechanical Engineering. She has competed in 2011 World Championships where she finished 27th and the 2013 World Championships where she finished 23rd. In the

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, in

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, she finished 23rd. In 2013, she set the National Record in the 5000m race walk, State President`s Prize event, in Valmiera, with a time of 21:03.15. She won the 20 km race at the International Road Walking Festival in

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in June 2012 finishing in front of Kristina Saltanovič and Brigita Virbalytė-Dimšienė.

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* * * * 1988 births Living people Latvian female race walkers Athletes from Riga Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Latvia {{Latvia-athletics-bio-stub