Evita Griskenas
Birthdate: 12/3/2000
Program: Rhythmic
Level: Senior
Current Residence: Orland Park, IL
Club: North Shore Rhythmic Gymnastics Center
Head Coach: Natalia Klimouk
Other Coaches: Angelina Yovcheva, Dani Takova
- Competed at the 2024 Olympic Games
- 2023 Pan American Games all-around silver medalist and hoop, ball, clubs & ribbon bronze medalist
- Member of the 2023 World Championships team
- Advanced to the all-around and hoop finals of the 2022 World Championships
- 2022 U.S. all-around, hoop & clubs champion and ball & ribbon silver medalist
- Member of the 2021 World Championships team
- Competed at the 2020 Olympic Games
- 2021 U.S. ball champion and all-around, clubs & ribbon silver medalist
- Won the NextGen Female Athlete Award at the 2019 Pan Am Sports Awards
- Advanced to the all-around and ball finals of the 2019 World Championships
- 2019 Pan American Games all-around, hoop, ball & ribbon champion and clubs bronze medalist
- 2019 U.S. ribbon champion and all-around, hoop & ball silver medalist
- Advanced to the all-around finals of the 2018 World Championships
- 2018 U.S. ball champion and all-around & hoop silver medalist
- Advanced to the all-around, ribbon and hoop finals at the 2017 World Championships
- 2017 U.S. hoop & ribbon champion, all-around & ball silver medalist and clubs bronze medalist
- 2016 U.S. ribbon silver medalist and hoop bronze medalist
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Hometown: Orland Park,
Twitter: @griskenas_e
Instagram: Instagram.com/https://www.instagram.com/evita.griskenas/?hl=en
High School Graduation Year: 2019
Name of College: Columbia University of New York
College Graduation Year: 2024
Degree/Major: Psychology
Year you began gymnastics: 2004
How did you get involved in gymnastics: In a nutshell, I saw rhythmic on the TV and fell in love with it. I begged my mom to go and have been in it ever since.
Names of parents/guardians/spouse: Sigitas and Olga Griskenas
Names of sibling(s): Nathan
Family members in sports: Dad: 1st Place in World Fitness Championships 1997, World Fitness Champion 1999, Mom: 5th&4th place fitness aerobics in World Fitness Championship 1997&1999, 4th place World Fitness Grand Prix 1998.
Hobbies or favorite activities: Watercolor, hang out with my brother and cats
Other sports involvement: I am the rhythmic athlete rep on the USAG Athlete Council
- 2023
Rhythmic Challenge, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
1st-AA, HP, BA; 2nd-RB; 3rd-CL
- 2022
USA Gymnastics Championships, Des Moines, Iowa -
1st-AA, HP, CL; 2nd-BA, RB
- 2022
Rhythmic Challenge, Des Moines, Iowa -
1st-BA; 2nd-CL
- 2021
USA Gymnastics Championships, St. Louis, Mo. -
1st-BA; 2nd-AA, CL, RB; 8th-HP
- 2021
Rhythmic Challenge, Des Moines, Iowa -
1st-AA, BA, CL, RB; 2nd-HP
- 2020
Rhythmic Challenge, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
1st-HP, BA, RB; 2nd-AA; 4th-CL
- 2019
USA Gymnastics Championships, Des Moines, Iowa -
1st-RB; 2nd-AA, HP, BA; 4th-CL
- 2019
Elite Qualfier, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
1st-BA; 2nd-AA, HP; 3rd-CL(T); 7th-RB
- 2019
Rhythmic Challenge, Indianapolis, Ind. -
1st-HP, CL, RB; 2nd-AA; 6th-BA
- 2018
USA Gymnastics Championships, Greensboro, N.C. -
1st-BA; 2nd-AA, HP; 4th-RB; 6th-CL
- 2018
Rhythmic Challenge, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
1st-CL; 2nd-AA, RB; 3rd-BA; 4th-HP
- 2017
USA Gymnastics Championships, Milwaukee, Wis. -
1st-HP, RB; 2nd-AA, BA; 3rd-CL
- 2017
Rhythmic Challenge, Indianapolis, Ind. -
1st-HP, CL; 2nd-AA; 4th-RB; 5th-BA
- 2016
USA Gymnastics Championships, Providence, R.I. -
2nd-RB(T); 3rd-HP(T); 4th-AA; 7th-BA, CL(T)
- 2016
National Qualifier, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
1st-AA, HP, BA; 2nd-CL(T), RB(T)
- 2016
Rhythmic Challenge, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
2nd-AA
- 2015
USA Gymnastics Championships, Greensboro, N.C. -
1st-AA, HP; 2nd-BA, CL; 3rd-RP (Jr. Div.)
- 2015
National Qualifier, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
1st-AA, RP, BA, CL; 3rd-HP (Jr. Div.)
- 2015
Rhythmic Challenge, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
1st-AA, BA, CL; 2nd-RP, HP (Jr. Div.)
- 2014
USA Gymnastics Championships, Louisville, Ky. -
5th-RB; 6th-CL, HP(T); 7th-AA (Jr. Div.)
- 2014
National Qualifier, Lake Placid, N.Y. -
2nd-CL; 3rd-AA, BA; 4th-HP, RB (Jr. Div.)
- 2014
Rhythmic Challenge, Colorado Springs, Colo. -
4th-CL; 5th-RB; 7th-AA, HP, BA (Jr. Div.)
- 2013
U.S. Rhythmic Championships, Orlando, Fla. -
8th-RB (Jr. Div.)
- 2024
Olympic Games, Paris, France -
- 2024
Milan World Cup, Milan, Italy -
- 2024
Brno Grand Prix, Brno, Czech Republic -
3rd-RB; 4th-AA; 5th-BA
- 2024
Portimao World Challenge Cup, Portimao, Portugal -
6th-RB
- 2023
Pan American Games, Santiago, Chile -
2nd-AA; 3rd-HP, BA, CL, RB
- 2023
Aeon Cup, Tokyo, Japan -
5th-Team
- 2023
Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships, Valencia, Spain -
- 2023
Pan American Championships, Guadalajara, Mexico -
2nd-Team; 3rd-AA, HP
- 2023
Portimao World Challenge Cup, Portimao, Portugal -
2nd-AA, HP, CL; 4th-BA; 5th-RB
- 2023
Baku World Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan -
- 2023
Faliro World Cup, Athens, Greece -
3rd-BA; 6th-RB; 9th-AA
- 2023
Aphrodite Cup, Athens, Greece -
1st-CL, RB; 2nd-AA; 3rd-HP
- 2022
Aeon Cup, Tokyo, Japan -
3rd-Team
- 2022
World Championships, Sofia, Bulgaria -
5th-Team; 7th-HP; 10th-AA
- 2022
Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup, Cluj-Napoca, Romania -
- 2022
World Games, Birmingham, Ala. -
5th-RB; 7th-HP
- 2022
Portimao World Cup, Portimao, Spain -
3rd-RB; 4th-AA; 6th-CL; 7th-HP; 8th-BA
- 2022
World Challenge Cup, Pamplona, Spain -
4th-HP; 6th-RB; 9th-AA
- 2022
Baku World Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan -
8th-AA, BA, RB
- 2021
World Championships, Kitakyushu, Japan -
- 2021
Olympic Games, Tokyo, Japan -
- 2021
Israel Senior International Tournament, Tel Aviv, Israel -
1st-AA, HP, BA, CL, RB
- 2021
Pesaro World Cup, Pesaro, Italy -
- 2021
Baku World Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan -
- 2021
Tashkent World Cup, Tashkent, Uzbekistan -
- 2021
Sofia World Cup, Sofia, Bulgaria -
- 2019
World Championships, Baku, Azerbaijan -
7th-Team; 8th-AA, BA
- 2019
Kazan World Cup, Kazan Russia -
5th-RB; 8th-AA
- 2019
Pan American Games, Lima, Peru -
1st-AA, HP, BA, RB; 3rd-CL
- 2019
Holon Grand Prix, Holon, Israel -
5th-AA; 6th-BA; 7th-HP, RB
- 2019
Sofia World Cup, Sofia, Bulgaria -
5th-HP; 6th-AA, RB; 7th-CL
- 2019
Pesaro World Cup, Pesaro, Italy -
5th-RB; 6th-AA; 8th-HP, BA
- 2019
MTM Ljubljana International Tournament, Ljubljana, Slovenia -
1st-HP; 2nd-AA, BA; 4th-RB
- 2019
Corbeil International Tournament, Corbeil-Essones, France -
1st-BA; 2nd-RB; 3rd-Team, AA, CL; 7th-HP
- 2018
AEON Cup, Takasaki, Japan -
5th-Team, AA
- 2018
World Championships, Sofia, Bulgaria -
7th-Team
- 2018
Kazan World Challenge Cup, Kazan, Russia -
8th-RB
- 2018
BSB Bank World Challenge Cup, Minsk, Belarus -
- 2018
Guadalajara World Challenge Cup, Guadalajara, Spain -
6th-RB; 7th-HP; 8th-CL; 10th-AA
- 2018
Pesaro World Cup, Pesaro, Italy -
6th-HP; 7th-RB; 8th-AA
- 2018
Sofia World Cup, Sofia, Bulgaria -
6th-HP, BA; 9th-AA
- 2017
Pan American Championships, Daytona Beach, Fla. -
1st-Team, AA, HP, BA, CL, RB
- 2017
World Championships, Pesaro, Italy -
7th-RB; 8th-HP; 11th-AA
- 2017
Kazan World Challenge Cup, Kazan, Russia -
- 2017
Sofia World Cup, Sofia, Bulgaria -
5th-BA; 8th-HP
- 2017
AGF Trophy FIG World Cup, Baku, Azerbaijan -
6th-AA, RB; 7th-HP
- 2017
Pesaro World Cup, Pesaro, Italy -
- 2016
Brno Grand Prix, Brno, Czech Republic -
8th-BA
- 2016
Pesaro World Cup, Pesaro, Italy -
- 2016
Lisbon World Cup, Lisbon, Portugal -
- 2016
Espoo World Cup, Espoo, Finland -
- 2015
International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament, Corbeil-Essonnes, France -
1st-AA (Jr. Div.)
- 2015
Lisbon International Tournament, Lisbon, Spain -
3rd-HP, CL; 4th-BA; 7th-RP (Jr. Div.)
- 2015
Moscow Junior International Tournament, Moscow, Russia -
3rd-AA