Ivana Brkljačić

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Ivana Brkljačić (born 25 January 1983 in Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) is a Croatian hammer thrower.

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 is 71.34 metres.

[edit] Achievements

Year Tournament Venue Result Extra
1999 World Youth Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland 3rd
2000 Olympic Games Sydney, Australia 11th
World Junior Championships Santiago, Chile 1st
2001 World Championships Edmonton, Canada 8th
2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 1st
2006 World Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 4th

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