Marija Vuković (Montenegrin: Марија Вуковић; born 21 January 1992) is a Montenegrin athlete specializing in the high jump. She won Montenegro's first ever European Athletics Championship medal with silver in the high jump at Munich 2022.
As a 17-year-old Vuković was the 2009 European Junior Championship silver medallist. By winning the 2010 World Junior Championships, she became her country's first ever medallist in a global athletics competition.
Biography
Marija Vuković was born in Knin, the then-capital of unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina. In 1995 her family settled as refugees in Cetinje.
She won the silver medal in high jump competition at the 2009 European Junior Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia, and gold at the 2010 World Junior Championships held in Moncton, Canada, which was the first medal won by a Montenegrin athlete in global competition.
Vuković competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and finished ninth.
Her personal bests are: 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) in the high jump (Smederevo 2021, NR), 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) in the indoor high jump (Banská Bystrica 2022, NR), and 11.55 m (37 ft 10 1⁄2 in) in the triple jump ( 1.0 m/s, Bar 2008, NU18R NU20R).
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References
External links
- Marija Vuković at World Athletics
- Marija Vuković at Olympedia
