Andrea Ivančević

Ivančević in Łódź, 2015

Andrea Ivančević (born 21 August 1984) is a Croatian track and field athlete who specialises in the 100 metres hurdles. She has a best of 12.88 seconds for the event. She holds Croatian records in the indoor 60 metres and 60 metres hurdles. Ivančević has represented Croatia at the European Athletics Championships, European Athletics Indoor Championships and the IAAF World Indoor Championships

Career

Born in Zagreb, Ivančević took up gymnastics at an early age but switched to athletics at the age of 15 after ten years of little success in her previous sport.[1] Focusing on hurdling instead, she competed internationally as a youth and ran in the heats of both the 2001 World Youth and the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She ran a Croatian junior record at the latter event.[2] She gradually improved her personal bests in her first seasons as a senior athlete, having a best of 13.86 seconds for the 100 m hurdles in 2003, 13.64 in 2004, then 13.60 in 2005.[3] She competed in the heats only of the 2005 European Athletics U23 Championships and made her senior debut at the 2006 European Athletics Championships, again only competing in the heats.[4] A personal best of 13.42 seconds came in 2006, but a further appearance at the 2007 Summer Universiade saw her again fail to pass the heats.[5]

At the start of 2008 she ran a Croatian record of 7.32 seconds for the 60 metres flat indoors.[6] She missed the 2009 and 2010 seasons,[3] but helped set another national record in 2011: 45.14 for the 4×100 metres relay while at the 2011 European Team Championships.[7] She also represented her country at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, but did not qualify for the final.[8] She was again inactive in 2012 and 2013.[3] Her sole major outing of 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships brought her success in the form of two national record runs – first she ran 8.10, then 8.09 in the semi-finals.[9]

Ivančević broke new ground at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Having national record times of 8.02 seconds in the heats and 7.97 seconds in the semi-finals, she made her first continental final and ended up seventh overall.[1]

Personal bests

International competitions

Year Competition Venue Position Event Notes
Representing  Croatia
2001 World Youth Championships Debrecen, Hungary 20th (h) 100 m hurdles (76.2 cm) 14.60
2002 World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 12th (h) 100 m hurdles 13.86 (wind: +0.3m/s)
2005 European U23 Championships Erfurt, Germany 18th (h) 100 m hurdles 13.88 (wind: +0.6m/s)
2006 European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden 32nd (h) 100 m hurdles 13.60
2007 Universiade Bangkok, Thailand 20th (h) 100 m hurdles 13.84
2011 European Indoor Championships Paris, France 22nd 60 m hurdles 8.43
2014 World Indoor Championships Sopot, Poland 13th (sf) 60 m hurdles 8.09 NR
2015 European Indoor Championships Prague, Czech Republic 7th 60 m hurdles 8.02
World Championships Beijing, China 20th (sf) 100 m hurdles 33.95
2016 World Indoor Championships Portland, United States 4th 60 m hurdles 7.95
Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 13th (sf) 100 m hurdles 12.93

References

  1. 1 2 Andrea Ivančević, ljepotica na tartanu: Najbrža sam Hrvatica (in Croatian). 24Sata (2015-03-08). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  2. ↑ Women 100 metre hurdles semi-finals. IAAF (2002-07-19). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  3. 1 2 3 Andrea Ivancevic Honours. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  4. ↑ 2006 European Athletics Championships Women's 100 metres hurdles. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  5. ↑ 2007 Universiade Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine.. Athlesaison. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  6. ↑ European Athletics News (EAA) - Weekend Round-up. German Road Races (2008-03-03). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  7. ↑ "4x100 Metres Relay Results". www.seltec-sports.de. 18 June 2011. Archived from the original on 21 June 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2011.
  8. ↑ 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres hurdles. Sport Result. Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
  9. ↑ Ivančević ponovno rekordno, ali ostala bez finala (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija (2014-03-08). Retrieved on 2015-03-11.
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