Age: 28

Hometown: Dublin

Club: UCD Athletics Club

Disability: Vision Impairment

Sport Class: T13

Paris will be Greta’s third Paralympic Games. She made her International debut for the Irish Para athletics team at the European Para Athletics Championships in 2016. That debut came shortly after she received her Irish passport in 2015 and she celebrated in style by winning the bronze medal. 

She won gold at the 2018 and 2021 European Championships and was fourth in the T13 1500m final on her Paralympic debut in Rio.

She credits her PE teacher Sean Gallagher for encouraging her to start running and coach Enda Fitzpatrick for bringing her to international standard. Disappointed at only finishing fifth at the 2019 World Championships, she switched to train with the Dublin Track Club where she is coached by Feidhlim Kelly.

Greta qualified at slot for Team Ireland at the 2024 Para Athletics World Championships with a time of 4:33.27, a new European record.

Greta competes in T13 because she has retinopathy with only vision in her left eye. Her family moved from Lithuania to Swords (Co Dublin) when she was 15 and she is a triplet. She has a degree in International Relations from DCU where she also obtained a Masters in Business Management in 2019. Greta also completed masters in Applied  Sports Psychology from Setanta College in 2023

She works, two days a-week, for AIB to facilitate her training.

Schedule:

Day 2- August 30th​

T13 1500m (heat) 20:36

Day 3 – August 31st

T13 1500m (final) 18:10

X: @streimikyte

Instagram: @streimikytegreta_

TikTok: @gretastreimikyte