Tatjana Mirković ( sr-cyr, Татјана Мирковић; Jelača / Јелача, born 10 August 1990) is a Serbian

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er.

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

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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. 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. 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."Tatjana Jelača rodila sina"
Blic.rs, 1.10.2015.

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