Anamarija Petričević (born 23 August 1972) is a retired

Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herze ...

n swimmer. Anamarija Petričević is a daughter of

Đurđica Bjedov Đurđa "Đurđica" Bjedov (born 5 April 1947) is a retired Croatian swimmer and the only Yugoslav Olympic champion in swimming. Bjedov never won a medal at major international competitions, except for the 1968 Olympics, where she finished fi ...

, gold and silver medalist in swimming at the

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. Petričević competed for Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She failed to advance past round one in 200 m breaststroke and 400 m individual medley, but made the B final in 200 m individual medley. In 1989 she won the 5 km gold medal at the 1989 European Open Water Swimming Championships, European Open Water Swimming Championships held in Stari Grad, Hvar, Stari Grad. Petričević retired from swimming in 1993. , she lives in Locarno, Switzerland, where she works as a swimming coach. Petričević holds the following senior national records (all set in 1988): * 50 meter pool **400 m freestyle (4:19.21) **400 m individual medley (4:46.33) *25 meter pool **400 individual medley (4:42.09) Her long-standing national record in 200 m individual medley (2:16.38, 1988) was surpassed by Kim Daniela Pavlin in May 2012.

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Kim Pavlin srušila rekord Anamarije Petričević iz 1988.
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