Slovenian triple jumper
Marija Šestak
Born (1979-04-17 ) 17 April 1979 (age 45) Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Weight 59 kg (130 lb) Country Slovenia Sport Athletics Event Triple jump
Marija Šestak (Serbian Cyrillic : Марија Шестак ; born Martinović , Мартиновић) is a Serbian -born Slovenian triple jumper .
Marija Martinović was born on 17 April 1979 in Kragujevac (at the time SR Serbia , SFR Yugoslavia ). She is married to Slovenian 400 metres runner Matija Šestak . She was granted Slovenian citizenship on 13 July 2006.
Her personal best jump is 15.08 metres, achieved on 13 February 2008 in Athens . This is the current national record for Slovenia, beating the seven-year-old record of Anja Valant .[1] She also has 6.50 metres in the long jump .
Achievements [ edit ] Year Competition Venue Position Notes Representing Yugoslavia / Serbia and Montenegro 1996 World Junior Championships Sydney , Australia 20th (q) 12.57 m (+1.7 m/s) 1997 Mediterranean Games Bari, Italy 7th 13.23 m European Junior Championships Ljubljana , Slovenia 2nd 13.54 m Universiade Catania, Italy (q) 13.15 m 1998 World Junior Championships Annecy , France 3rd 13.47 m (+0.4 m/s) 1999 European U23 Championships Gothenburg , Sweden 8th 13.14 m (+1.3 m/s) 2001 European U23 Championships Amsterdam , Netherlands 2nd 13.72 m (0.0 m/s) Mediterranean Games Radès , Tunisia 2nd 13.97 m (w) 2002 European Indoor Championships Vienna , Austria 6th 14.00 m 2003 Universiade Daegu, South Korea 8th 13.12 m Representing Slovenia 2006 World Athletics Final Stuttgart , Germany 5th 14.32 m 2007 World Championships Osaka , Japan 3rd 14.72 m 2008 World Indoor Championships Valencia , Spain 2nd 14.68 m Olympic Games Beijing , China 4th 15.03 m (NR ) 2009 European Indoor Championships Turin , Italy 2nd 14.60 m World Championships Berlin , Germany 25th (q) 13.69 m 2011 World Championships Daegu, South Korea 21st (q) 13.87 m 2012 World Indoor Championships Istanbul, Turkey 9th (q) 14.05 m Olympic Games London , United Kingdom 11th 13.98 m
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