Tatjana Jelača

Tatjana Jelača

Personal information
Nationality	Serbian
Born	(1990-08-10) 10 August 1990 (age 34) Sremska Mitrovica, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight	85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Country	Serbia
Sport	Athletics / Track and field
Event	Javelin
Achievements and titles
Personal best	Javelin - 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.

Career

Jelača won the gold medal at the 2007 European Youth Olympic Festival, bronze medal at the 2008 World Junior Championships and gold medal at the 2009 European Junior Championships. She received the award for the best Serbian young athlete in 2009.

She also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games without reaching the final round.

At the 2011 World Championships she failed to qualify for the final, finishing at the 24th place in the qualifications.

At the 2010 European Championships she won a 12th place and at the 2012 European Championships she won a 7th place.

Jelača made breakthrough in her senior career in qualifications of the 2013 World Championship when she threw national record 62.68 meters. She came 9th in final.^[2]

She won her first senior medal, silver at the 2014 European Championship with a huge personal best which is also national record 64.21 meters.^[3]

Her coaches are Goran Pavlović, Aleksandar Spajić and Dragiša Đorđić.

Personal life

In March 2015, Tatjana Jelača and her fiancé Bojan Mirković were married; their son Nikola was born in September 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany.^[4]

Personal bests

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

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Serbia
2007	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	6th	48.12 m
	European Youth Olympic Festival	Belgrade, Serbia	1st	51.80 m
2008	European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)	Split, Croatia	7th	48.21 m
	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	3rd	58.77 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	53rd	NM
2009	European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)	Tenerife, Spain	3rd	54.14 m
	European Junior Championships	Novi Sad, Serbia	1st	60.35 m
2010	European Cup Winter Throwing (U23)	Arles, France	2nd	56.26 m
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	12th	52.13 m
2011	World Championships	Daegu, South Korea	24th (q)	56.68 m
	European Championships U23	Ostrava, Czech Republic	7th	55.44 m
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	7th	57.58 m
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	26th (q)	57.09 m
2013	Mediterranean Games	Mersin, Turkey	2nd	57.88 m
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	9th	60.81 m
2014	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	2nd	64.21 m

References

1. "Udala se Tatjana Jelača". Sportski žurnal, 28 mart 2015.
2. "Tatjana Jelača deveta u bacanju koplja na Svetskom prvenstvu". blic. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
3. "Sjajan hitac i glasno "hajde": Kako je Jelača bacila koplje do evropskog srebra". blic. 10 April 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
4. "Tatjana Jelača rodila sina". Blic.rs, 1.10.2015.

External links

• Tatjana Mirković at World Athletics
• Tatjana Mirković at European Athletics
• Tatjana Jelača at Olympedia (archive)
• Tatjana Jelača at Olympics.com
• Tatjana Jelača at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)

Awards
Preceded by Ivana Španović	The Best Young Athlete of Serbia 2009	Succeeded by Olivera and Nikolina Moldovan