Ivana Brkljačić (born 25 January 1983 in Villingen-Schwenningen, West Germany) is a female former hammer thrower from Croatia.
Career She achieved good results as a teenager, winning the World Junior Championships twice and finishing 11th in the 2000 Olympic finals at the age of 17. In the hammer throw contest at the 2004 Olympics she missed qualification to the final round by 6 centimetres.
Her personal best throw, and also a national record, is 75.08 metres, set at the June 2007 EAA meeting in Warsaw.
In 2009 Brkljačić became a director of the Hanžeković Memorial, a member of the IAAF World Challenge series of athletics meetings.
On 27 May 2010 Brkljačić announced her retirement from professional sport. Her last competition appearance was at the 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.
Achievements Representing 1998World Junior ChampionshipsAnnecy, France15th (q)53.81 mEuropean Championships Budapest, Hungary—NM1999World Youth ChampionshipsBydgoszcz, Poland 3rd55.69 mEuropean Junior Championships Riga, Latvia5th58.08 m2000Olympic Games Sydney, Australia11th63.20 mWorld Junior Championships Santiago, Chile 1st62.22 m2001European Junior Championships Grosseto, Italy1st64.18 mWorld ChampionshipsEdmonton, Canada8th65.43 mMediterranean Games Radès, Tunisia4th61.44 m2002World Junior Championships Kingston, Jamaica 1st65.39 mEuropean Championships Munich, Germany17th (q)62.46 m2003European U23 Championships Bydgoszcz, Poland8th63.04 mWorld Championships Paris, France35th (q)60.06 m2004Olympic GamesAthens, Greece13th (q)68.21 m2005Mediterranean Games Almería, Spain7th64.88 mWorld ChampionshipsHelsinki, Finland15th (q)65.63 m2006European Championships Gothenburg, Sweden21st (q)63.31 mWorld Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany4th66.90 m2007World Championships Osaka, Japan11th68.16 mWorld Athletics Final Stuttgart, Germany 2nd73.22 m2008Olympic Games Beijing, PR China16th (q)68.38 m
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