Anja Crevar

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Anja Crevar
Personal information
Nationality Serbia
Born (2000-05-24) 24 May 2000 (age 23)
Pančevo, Yugoslavia
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesMedley, butterfly, freestyle, backstroke
ClubUCAM Club Natación Fuensanta
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Serbia
European Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kazan 400 m medley
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Tarragona 400 m medley
European U-23 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Dublin 200 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2023 Dublin 400 m medley
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires 200 m medley
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Indianapolis 400 m medley
European Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku 400 m medley
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 400 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2017 Netanya 400 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2017 Netanya 200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 200 m medley

Anja Crevar (Serbian Cyrillic: Ања Цревар; born 24 May 2000) is a Serbian swimmer, and a member of the UCAM Club Natación Fuensanta.

She won a bronze medal at the 2015 European Games, which served as European junior championship, in 400m medley style with a new national record. At the 2015 Junior World Championship held in Singapore, at the age of 15, she came in 5th place in the finals with a new national record in the 400m medley which was also an Olympic qualifying time. Therefore, she represented Serbia at the 2016 Olympic Games.[1][2]

In October 2018, she won the silver medal in the girls' 200 m individual medley at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, behind gold medal winner Anastasia Gorbenko of Israel.[3] In February 2024 she was placed 4th in the women's 400 metre individual medley at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Anji lični, državni rekord i norma za Rio!" [Personal and national record for Anja and Olympic standard for Rio!] (in Serbian). B92. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anja Crevar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Israeli 15-year old swimmer wins gold in Youth Olympic Games," Archived 24 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Haaretz.
  4. ^ https://rtv.rs/sr_lat/sport/individualni-sportovi/srpska-plivacica-anja-crevar-osvojila-cetvrto-mesto-na-svetskom-prvenstvu-na-400-metara-mesovito_1517511.html

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