Mirna Jukić (born 9 April 1986) is a retired Austrian swimmer who won a bronze medal in both short course and long course at the world championships in swimming. She is trained by her father Željko Jukić, a former
basketball
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player. She has had numerous European and World championship successes.
Family
Jukić was born 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
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and grew up in
Vukovar
Vukovar () ( sr-Cyrl, Вуковар, hu, Vukovár, german: Wukowar) is a city in Croatia, in the eastern region of Slavonia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of ...
,
Croatia
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. In
November 1991, the family moved to
Zagreb
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, and her father started training her at
Mladost in 1996. Her brother,
Dinko Jukić, with whom she was trained early on, also became an international-level swimmer. In the autumn of 1999, the family moved to
Vienna
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, Austria, and the same year Mirna became an Austrian citizen. Her brother became an Austrian citizen in 2000, while the parents remained Croatian citizens.
Olympic career
At the
2008 Olympics Jukić garnered a bronze medal in the
100 m breaststroke (1:07.34); she also swam the
200 m breaststroke. At the
2009 World Aquatics Championships
The 2009 World Aquatics Championships ( it, Campionati mondiali di nuoto 2009) or the XIII FINA World Championships were held in Rome, Italy from 18 July to 2 August 2009. The 2009 Championships featured competition in all 5 aquatics disciplines ...
she won the bronze medal in the
200 m breaststroke final with a time of 2:21.97.
Training
For the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, Jukić trained at
The Race Club
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History
The Race Club was founded in 2003 by Gary Ha ...
, a swimming club founded by Olympic swimmers
Gary Hall, Jr.
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and his father,
Gary Hall, Sr. The Race Club, originally known as "The World Team," was designed to serve as a training group for elite swimmers across the world in preparation for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. To be able to train with the Race Club, one must either have been ranked in the top 20 in the world the past 3 calendar years or top 3 in their nation in the past year. The Race Club included such well known swimmers as
Roland Mark Schoeman
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Ca ...
,
Mark Foster,
Ryk Neethling
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,
Ricardo Busquets and
Therese Alshammar
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.
Broadcasting
In January 2010, Mirna Jukić was the host of the
Croatian team in
Graz for the
2010 European Men's Handball Championship
The 2010 EHF European Men's Handball Championship (9th tournament) was held in Austria from 19 to 31 January, in the cities of Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck, Linz and Wiener Neustadt.
Venues
5 Austrian cities have been selected to host the 2010 Cham ...
.
See also
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The Race Club
The Race Club is a swimming club known for training Olympic Games swimmers with its swimming training program that is focused on specific swimming techniques, located in Islamorada, Florida.
History
The Race Club was founded in 2003 by Gary Ha ...
References
External links
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Mirna Jukić Photo Gallery at The Race Club
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1986 births
Living people
Austrian female breaststroke swimmers
Croatian female swimmers
Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers of Austria
Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
Croatian emigrants to Austria
Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Swimmers from Vienna
Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Universiade medalists in swimming
Sportspeople from Novi Sad
Universiade bronze medalists for Austria
Medalists at the 2007 Summer Universiade
Austrian people of Croatian descent
Croats of Vojvodina