Vilhelmina "Vilma" Bardauskienė (born June 15, 1953) is a former long jump

Long jump

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er from Lithuania

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, who represented the Soviet Union

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 in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She twice set the women's world record

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 in the long jump, and won the European title in 1978 (Prague

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). She was born in Pakruojis

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Bardauskienė was the first female athlete to break the 7m barrier in long jump (7.07m). Eleven days later she broke her own record by two centimetres (7.09m) at the European Championships in Prague.