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Olivera Jevtić
	Jevtić in 2006
Personal information
Nickname	Olja
Born	24 July 1977 (age 47); Titovo Užice, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	5000 m, 10,000 m,; Half marathon, Marathon,; Cross country running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	5000 meters: 15:11.25 ; 10,000 meters: 31:29.65 ; Marathon: 2:25:23
Medal record
Representing Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro / Serbia
European Championships
European Cross Country Championships
Mediterranean Games
European U23 Championships
World Junior Championships
European Junior Championships

Olivera Jevtić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Јевтић, born 24 July 1977) is a Serbian long-distance runner. She has represented her country five times at the Olympics in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

Running career

Jevtić was born in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia, otherwise known presently as Užice, Serbia. Her parents are father Milorad and mother Draginja. She is based in her native city, coached by Slavoljub "Slavko" Kuzmanović, and she competes for the running club AK Mladost Užice. Jevtić holds the Serbian marathon record of 2:25:23, which she established at the Rotterdam Marathon in 2003. She won the silver medal in the marathon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. In December 2007, coach Kuzmanović and Jevtić went on an altitude training trip to Eldoret, Kenya, when violent conflict erupted from the 2007 Kenyan election crisis. Although they wanted to continue working out in spite of the violence, her training partner, Stanley Kipruto, insisted that their lives were in danger and led them out of Eldoret so that they could leave the country from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. After Jevtić and Kuzmanović were picked up by a Serbian diplomat-evacuation flight, Kipruto was caught by rebels, tortured, and lost four fingers.^[2] Subsequent to the violence in Kenya, Kipruto moved in to live with Jevtić and Kuzmanović in Užice and joined their running team Mladost.^[2]

She won the women's race at the Balkan Cross Country Championships in March 2011.^[3]

Jevtić was selected as young athlete of the year of 1996. In 2006, she was awarded Golden Badge of Sport, award for the sportsperson of the Year in Serbia, and the same year, and the 1998 and 1999 was declared the best sportswoman by the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Yugoslavia.^[4]

Jevtić was stripped of third place in 2002 New York City Marathon and received a public warning after testing positive for the banned drug ephedrine.^[5]^[6] The president of NYRR at the time, Alan Steinfeld, told the New York Times that it was likely an "innocent mistake" and that ephedrine is common in cough suppressants.^[7]

During the start of the 2020 Sofia Marathon in Bulgaria, Jevtić was assaulted by the Bulgarian citizen.^[8]

National titles

Yugoslav Athletics Championships
- 1500 m: 1994, 1996
- 5000 m: 1996
Yugoslav Half Marathon Championships
- Women's race: 1998, 1999, 2002
Yugoslavia Cross Country Championships
- Women's race: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000^[9]

Results

2021 Belgrade Half Marathon 1st place
2015 Sarajevo Half Marathon 1st place
2014 Sarajevo Half Marathon 1st place
2013 European Team Championships, Second league 5000 m - 1st place
2013 European Cup 10,000m - 3rd place
2013 Belgrade Marathon 1st place
2012 European Cross Country Championships 26th place
2012 Podgorica Marathon 1st place
2011 European Cross Country Championships 21st place
2011 Torino Marathon 5th place
2010 European Championship marathon 4th place
2009 Saint Silvester Road Race 2nd place
2009 Sarajevo Half Marathon 1st place
2009 Belgrade Half Marathon 1st place
2009 Podgorica Marathon 1st place
2008 Belgrade Half Marathon 1st place
2007 Porto Half Marathon 2nd place
2006 Boston Marathon 7th place
2006 European Championship marathon silver medal
2005 Saint Silvester Marathon 1st place
2004 Boston Marathon 3rd place
2004 Olympic Games marathon 6th place
2003 New York City Marathon 9th place
2003 World Championship marathon 8th place
2003 Rotterdam Marathon 1st place
2002 New York City Marathon 3rd place (debut and DSQ)
2002 New York City Mini Marathon 4th place
2001 World Half Marathon Championships 7th place
1998 Saint Silvester Marathon 1st place
1998 European Championship 10,000 m fourth
1998 European Championship 5000 m fourth
1996 World Junior Championship in Athletics 5000 m silver medal

References

^ ^a ^b ^c All-Athletics. "Profile of Olivera JEVTIĆ".
^ ^a ^b Vladimir Lojanica (14 October 2012). "Blic: Atletičaru iz Kenije odsekli prste jer je spasao Oliveru Jevtić" (in Serbian). Retrieved 12 November 2015.
^ Petrovic and Jevtic win Balkan cross country titles Archived 2011-03-16 at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics (2011-03-14). Retrieved on 2011-03-20.
^ Olimpijski komitet Srbije Archived 2010-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
^ http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200301/s760345.htm ^{[dead link‍]}
^ IAAF News n.60 February 2003, p. 7: POSITIVE CASES IN ATHLETICS, SANCTIONED DEFINITIVELY, ACCORDING TO INFORMATION RECEIVED BY THE IAAF AS OF 17 February 2003
^ [1] Lena Williams. New York Times: 3rd-Place Finisher in New York Fails Drug Test. January 9, 2003. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
^ "EFFECTIVE Bulgarians: They caught Bojan who attacked and injured Olivera Jevtić". tekdeeps.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
^ Yugoslav Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-25.

External links

Olivera Jevtić at World Athletics
Olivera Jevtić at European Athletics
Olivera Jevtić at Olympedia (archive)
Olivera Jevtić at Olympics.com
Olivera Jevtić at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)

Awards
Preceded by Vladan Marković	The Best Young Athlete of Yugoslavia 1996	Succeeded by Saša Stolić
Preceded by Danilo Ikodinović	The Best Athlete of Serbia 2006	Succeeded by Novak Djokovic