Ivana Brkljačić
![]() Ivana Brkljačić in Zagreb, 2009 | |
Personal information | |
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National team | Croatia |
Born | (1983-01-25) 25 January 1983 (age 41) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Hammer throw |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | Hammer throw: 75.08 m (2007)[1] |
Ivana Brkljačić (born 25 January 1983 in Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany) is a female former hammer thrower from Croatia.[1]
Career
She achieved good results as a teenager, winning the World Junior Championships twice and finishing 11th in the 2000 Olympic finals at the age of 17. In the hammer throw contest at the 2004 Olympics she missed qualification to the final round by 6 centimetres.
Her personal best throw, and also a national record, is 75.08 metres, set at the June 2007 EAA meeting in Warsaw.
In 2009 Brkljačić became a director of the Hanžeković Memorial, a member of the IAAF World Challenge series of athletics meetings.
On 27 May 2010 Brkljačić announced her retirement from professional sport. Her last competition appearance was at the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.
Achievements
References
- ^ a b "Ivana Brkljačić Profile". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
External links
- Ivana Brkljačić at World Athletics
- Ivana Brkljačić at Olympedia
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- 1998:
Bianca Achilles (GER)
- 2000:
Ivana Brkljačić (CRO)
- 2002:
Ivana Brkljačić (CRO)
- 2004:
Maryia Smaliachkova (BLR)
- 2006:
Bianca Perie (ROM)
- 2008:
Bianca Perie (ROM)
- 2010:
Sophie Hitchon (GBR)
- 2012:
Alexandra Tavernier (FRA)
- 2014:
Alyona Shamotina (UKR)
- 2016:
Beatrice Nedberge Llano (NOR)
- 2018:
Camryn Rogers (CAN)
- 2021:
Silja Kosonen (FIN)
- 2022:
Rachele Mori (ITA)
- 2024:
Jiale Zhange (CHN)