Milan Trajkovic

Milan Trajkovic

Milan Trajkovic in 2023
Personal information
Born	(1992-03-17) 17 March 1992 (age 32) Surdulica, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Education	Cyprus University of Technology[1]
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Weight	82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event	110 metres hurdles
Medal record European Indoor Championships 2019 Glasgow 60 m hurdles European Games 2023 Kraków-Małopolska 110 m hurdles Mediterranean Games 2022 Oran 110 m hurdles

Milan Trajković (Serbian: Милан Трајковић, Greek: Μίλαν Τράικοβιτς, born 17 March 1992) is a Serbian-born Cypriot athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles.^[3] He has won two gold medals at the Games of the Small States of Europe.

Biography

Trajković was raised in the Serbian town of Surdulica but emigrated with his family to Cyprus at the age of nine as a result of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.^[4]

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, he qualified for the final of Men's 110 metres hurdles with times of 13.41 seconds and 13.31 in the semi-finals.^[5] With this qualification, Trajkovic became the first Cypriot athlete to qualify for this event at the Olympic Games.

Milan Trajković representing Cyprus in the 110m hurdles finals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

His personal bests are 13.25 seconds in the 110 metres hurdles (0.0 m/s, London 2017) and 7.51 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (Birmingham, 2018). Both are current national records.

Competition record

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Cyprus
2011	European Junior Championships	Tallinn, Estonia	19th (sf)	110 m hurdles (99 cm)	14.49
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	25th (h)	60 m hurdles	7.95
	Games of the Small States of Europe	Luxembourg, Luxembourg	1st	110 m hurdles	14.03
	European U23 Championships	Tampere, Finland	8th	110 m hurdles	14.22
2014	Commonwealth Games	Glasgow, United Kingdom	14th (h)	110 m hurdles	13.95
	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	24th (h)	110 m hurdles	13.78
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	19th (h)	60 m hurdles	7.83
	Games of the Small States of Europe	Reykjavík, Iceland	1st	110 m hurdles	13.86
	Universiade	Gwangju, South Korea	6th	110 m hurdles	13.78
2016	European Championships	Amsterdam, Netherlands	5th	110 m hurdles	13.44
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	7th	110 m hurdles	13.41
2017	European Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	6th	60 m hurdles	7.60
	World Championships	London, United Kingdom	11th (sf)	110 m hurdles	13.32
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	2nd (sf)	60 m hurdles	7.51^1
	Commonwealth Games	Gold Coast, Australia	4th	110 m hurdles	13.42
	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	15th (sf)	110 m hurdles	13.57
2019	European Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	1st	60 m hurdles	7.60
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	8th	110 m hurdles	13.87
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	17th (sf)	60 m hurdles	7.78
	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	23rd (sf)	110 m hurdles	14.01
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	7th	60 m hurdles	7.62
	Mediterranean Games	Oran, Algeria	1st	110 m hurdles	13.34
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	19th (sf)	110 m hurdles	13.49
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	9th (sf)	110 m hurdles	13.54
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	9th (sf)	60 m hurdles	7.73
	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	12th (sf)	110 m hurdles	13.33
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, United Kingdom	8th	60 m hurdles	7.59
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	9th (sf)	110 m hurdles	13.32

¹Disqualified in the final

References

1. 2015 WSG profile Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
2. 2014 CWG profile
3. Milan Trajkovic at World Athletics
4. Μίλαν Τραΐκοβιτς: H ιστορία του Κύπριου δρομέα που μας έκανε περήφανους στο Ρίο (in Greek). Philenews (2016-08-23). Retrieved on 2017-08-06.
5. Olympic Games Rio 2016