Tatjana Jelača

Tatjana Jelača
Personal information
NationalitySerbian
Born (1990-08-10) 10 August 1990
Sremska Mitrovica, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Country Serbia
SportAthletics / Track and field
EventJavelin
ClubAK Sirmijum
Achievements and titles
Personal bestJavelin - 64.21 m
Medal record
Representing  Serbia
European Championships
2014 Zürich Javelin throw
Mediterranean Games
2013 Mersin Javelin throw
World Junior Championships
2008 Bydgoszcz Javelin throw
European Junior Championships
2009 Novi Sad Javelin throw
European Youth Olympic Festival
2007 Belgrade Javelin throw

Tatjana Mirković[1] (Serbian Cyrillic: Татјана Мирковић; née Jelača / Јелача, born 10 August 1990) is a Serbian javelin thrower. A two-time Olympian having competed at the Summer Olympics of 2008 and 2012, Mirković won the silver medal at the 2014 European Athletics Championships. She also extended the Serbian national record in her event numerous times.

Career

Early career

As a member of Sirmijum Athletics Club,[2] Jelača won the gold medal at the 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival, throwing the javelin 51.80 metres to set a senior Serbian national record in the event.[3]

In July 2008, Jelača won a bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Her result of 58.77 metres set another new senior national record in the process.[4] She also competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where she failed to record a valid distance and did not reach the final round.[5]

In July 2009, Jelača set another new senior national record in the javelin with a throw of 60.35 metres to take the gold medal at the 2009 European Junior Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia.[6] At the end of the year, she received the Sport award for the best Serbian young athlete in 2009.[7]

Senior career

At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, Jelača reached the final with a throw in qualifying of 56.89 metres, which was 9th best overall.[8] In the final itself, her best mark was 52.13 metres, which gave her 12th place.[9]

At the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki she won a 7th place after setting her season's best effort of 57.58 metres.[10] In August of that year she competed in London at the 2012 Olympic Games, although her performance in the qualifying round was insufficient to advance to the final.[11]

In the June 2013 Mediterranean Games, Jelača threw the javelin 57.88 metres and took a silver medal at the event behind Martina Ratej of Slovenia.[12] Jelača made a breakthrough in her senior career in qualifications of the 2013 World Championship two months later, when she threw a new national record of 62.68 metres. She came 9th in the final with a best effort of 60.81 metres.[13]

She won her first senior medal, silver at the 2014 European Championship with a huge personal best which also set a new national record of 64.21 metres.[14]

Personal life

In March 2015, Tatjana Jelača took the surname Mirković after marrying her fiancé Bojan Mirković.[1] Their son Nikola was born in September 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany.[15]

Personal bests

Event Performance Date Location Notes
Javelin throw 64.21 m 14 August 2014 Zürich, Switzerland NR

References

  1. ^ a b "Удала се Татјана Јелача". zurnal.rs (in Serbian). 28 March 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  2. ^ "Nova olimpijska nada". danas.rs (in Serbian). 8 August 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  3. ^ "EYOF: Srbiji zlato i u bacanju koplja". mondo.rs (in Serbian). 27 July 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  4. ^ "Tatjana Jelača i Mihail Dudaš osvojili bronze". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 10 July 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Women's Javelin Throw Qualifying Rounds". 2008.nbcolympics.com. n.d. Archived from the original on 31 July 2012.
  6. ^ "Jelači zlato u bacanju koplja". Radio Television of Vojvodina (in Serbian). 26 July 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Tatjana najbolji mladi sportista godine u izboru Sporta". Srpski Atletski Savez (in Serbian). 25 December 2009. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Jelača u finalu prvenstva Evrope". Radio Television of Vojvodina (in Serbian). 27 July 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  9. ^ "ATLETIKA (EP): Šarčević odličan, Jelača 12". mondo.rs (in Serbian). 29 July 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  10. ^ "Jelača osma kopljašica Evrope". telegraf.rs (in Serbian). 29 June 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Loš rezultat Jelača pravda neispavanošću". politika.rs (in Serbian). 7 August 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Mersin: Jelača osvojila srebro". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 28 June 2013. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  13. ^ "Tatjana Jelača deveta u bacanju koplja na Svetskom prvenstvu". blic. 18 August 2013. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015.
  14. ^ "Sjajan hitac i glasno "hajde": Kako je Jelača bacila koplje do evropskog srebra". blic. 15 August 2014. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014.
  15. ^ "ČESTITAMO! PORODILA SE NAŠA ATLETIČARKA: Jelača dobila sina Nikolu!". kurir.rs (in Serbian). 1 October 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
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