Ivana Brkljačić
Athletics | |
| Event | Hammer throw |
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| 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 former female 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
World U20 Champions in women's hammer throw | |
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