Marija_Vuković
Marija Vuković
Montenegrin high jumper
Marija Vuković is a Montenegrin athlete specializing in the high jump. She won Montenegro's first ever European Athletics Championship medal with silver in the high jump at Munich 2022.[1]
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| Nationality | Montenegrin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1992-01-21) 21 January 1992 (age 32) Knin, Croatia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Montenegro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As a 17-year-old Vuković was the 2009 European Junior Championship silver medallist. By winning the 2010 World Junior Championships, she became her country's first ever medallist in a global athletics competition.
Marija Vuković was born in Knin, the then-capital of unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina. In 1995 her family settled as refugees in Cetinje.[2]
She won the silver medal in high jump competition at the 2009 European Junior Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia, and gold at the 2010 World Junior Championships held in Moncton, Canada, which was the first medal won by a Montenegrin athlete in global competition.[3]
Vuković competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished ninth.
Her personal bests are: 1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in) in the high jump (Smederevo 2021, NR), 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) in the indoor high jump (Banská Bystrica 2022, NR), and 11.55 m (37 ft 10+1⁄2 in) in the triple jump (+1.0 m/s, Bar 2008, NU18R NU20R).
- The third league of the 2015 European Team Championships
- "Auf Wiedersehen Munich! Hosts Germany's best championships this century". European Athletics. 23 August 2022. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- "Vuković otkrila težak životni i sportski put: Od suza zbog rata do olimpijskih suza radosnica". Aktuelno (in Bosnian). 2 July 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- "Vukovic makes history as she takes Montenegro's first gold medal". World Athletics. 25 July 2010. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
