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.
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.
Biography
Marija Vuković was born in
Knin
Knin (, sr, link=no, Книн, it, link=no, Tenin) is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagr ...
, the then-capital of unrecognized
Republic of Serbian Krajina
The Republic of Serbian Krajina or Serb Republic of Krajina ( sh, Република Српска Крајина, italics=no / or РСК / ''RSK'', ), known as the Serbian Krajina ( / ) or simply Krajina, was a self-proclaimed Serb proto-state, ...
. In 1995 her family settled as refugees in
Cetinje.
She won the silver medal in high jump competition at the
2009 European Junior Championships in
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
, 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.
Vuković competed at the
2020 Tokyo Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the List of Olympic Games h ...
and
finished ninth.
Her personal bests are: in the high jump (
Smederevo
Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about downstream of the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
According to ...
2021, ), in the indoor high jump (
Banská Bystrica 2022, ), and in the triple jump (+1.0 m/s,
Bar 2008, ).
Competition record
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References
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1992 births
Living people
Montenegrin female high jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Montenegro
World Athletics Championships athletes for Montenegro
Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 European Games
European Games competitors for Montenegro
Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games competitors for Montenegro
Competitors at the 2015 Summer Universiade
Competitors at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Sportspeople from Knin
People from the Republic of Serbian Krajina
Yugoslav Wars refugees
21st-century Montenegrin women
21st-century Montenegrin people
Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Montenegro
Mediterranean Games gold medalists in athletics
European Athletics Championships medalists
Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games