Tatjana Jelača
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Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sremska Mitrovica, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia | 10 August 1990|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Serbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics / Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | Javelin - 64.21 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tatjana Mirković[1] (Serbian Cyrillic: Татјана Мирковић; née Jelača / Јелача, born 10 August 1990) is a Serbian javelin thrower.
Career
[edit]Jelača won the gold medal at the 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival, bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships and gold medal at the 2009 European Junior Championships. She received the award for the best Serbian young athlete in 2009.
She also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games without reaching the final round.
At the 2011 World Championships she failed to qualify for the final, finishing at the 24th place in the qualifications.
At the 2010 European Championships she won a 12th place and at the 2012 European Championships she won a 7th place.
Jelača made breakthrough in her senior career in qualifications of the 2013 World Championship when she threw national record 62.68 meters. She came 9th in final.[2]
She won her first senior medal, silver at the 2014 European Championship with a huge personal best which is also national record 64.21 meters.[3]
Her coaches are Goran Pavlović, Aleksandar Spajić and Dragiša Đorđić.
Personal life
[edit]In March 2015, Tatjana Jelača and her fiancé Bojan Mirković were married; their son Nikola was born in September 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany.[4]
Personal bests
[edit]Event | Performance | Date | Location | Notes |
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Javelin throw | 64.21 m | 14 August 2014 | Zürich, Switzerland | NR |
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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Representing Serbia | ||||
2007 | World Youth Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 6th | 48.12 m |
European Youth Olympic Festival | Belgrade, Serbia | 1st | 51.80 m | |
2008 | European Cup Winter Throwing (U23) | Split, Croatia | 7th | 48.21 m |
World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 3rd | 58.77 m | |
Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 53rd | NM | |
2009 | European Cup Winter Throwing (U23) | Tenerife, Spain | 3rd | 54.14 m |
European Junior Championships | Novi Sad, Serbia | 1st | 60.35 m | |
2010 | European Cup Winter Throwing (U23) | Arles, France | 2nd | 56.26 m |
European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 12th | 52.13 m | |
2011 | World Championships | Daegu, South Korea | 24th (q) | 56.68 m |
European Championships U23 | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 7th | 55.44 m | |
2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 7th | 57.58 m |
Olympic Games | London, United Kingdom | 26th (q) | 57.09 m | |
2013 | Mediterranean Games | Mersin, Turkey | 2nd | 57.88 m |
World Championships | Moscow, Russia | 9th | 60.81 m | |
2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 2nd | 64.21 m |
References
[edit]- ^ "Udala se Tatjana Jelača". Sportski žurnal, 28 mart 2015.
- ^ "Tatjana Jelača deveta u bacanju koplja na Svetskom prvenstvu". blic. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ^ "Sjajan hitac i glasno "hajde": Kako je Jelača bacila koplje do evropskog srebra". blic. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
- ^ "Tatjana Jelača rodila sina". Blic.rs, 1.10.2015.
External links
[edit]- Tatjana Mirković at World Athletics
- Tatjana Mirković at European Athletics
- Tatjana Jelača at Olympedia (archive)
- Tatjana Jelača at Olympics.com
- Tatjana Jelača at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Sremska Mitrovica
- Serbian female javelin throwers
- Olympic athletes for Serbia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Serbia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- 21st-century Serbian women
- Serbian athletics biography stubs