Ivana Brkljačić Explained

National Team:	Croatia
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	Hammer throw
Birth Date:	df=yes 25 January 1983
Pb:	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

Representing
1998	World Junior Championships	Annecy, France	15th (q)	53.81 m
		Budapest, Hungary	—	NM
1999	World Youth Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd	55.69 m
		Riga, Latvia	5th	58.08 m
2000		Sydney, Australia	11th	63.20 m
		Santiago, Chile	1st	62.22 m
2001		Grosseto, Italy	bgcolor=gold	1st	64.18 m
	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	8th	65.43 m
		Radès, Tunisia	4th	61.44 m
2002		Kingston, Jamaica	1st	65.39 m
		Munich, Germany	17th (q)	62.46 m
2003		Bydgoszcz, Poland	8th	63.04 m
		Paris, France	35th (q)	60.06 m
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	13th (q)	68.21 m
2005		Almería, Spain	7th	64.88 m
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	15th (q)	65.63 m
2006		Gothenburg, Sweden	21st (q)	63.31 m
		Stuttgart, Germany	4th	66.90 m
2007		Osaka, Japan	11th	68.16 m
		Stuttgart, Germany	2nd	73.22 m
2008		Beijing, PR China	16th (q)	68.38 m

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ivana Brkljačić Profile. worldathletics.org. 6 August 2022.