PERKOVIC Sandra

Date of Birth: 21 Jun 1990

Age: 31

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Place of birth: ZAGREB

Birth Country:

Croatia

Place of residence : ZAGREB

Residence Country:

Croatia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's Discus Throw	4

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Long Throws	Women's Discus Throw Qualification - Group A	Finished
	Olympic Stadium - Long Throws	Women's Discus Throw Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Discus Throw
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	1st (69.21)
2012	London, GBR	1st (69.11)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Discus Throw
2019	Doha, QAT	3rd (66.72)
2017	London, GBR	1st (70.31)
2015	Beijing, CHN	2nd (67.39)
2013	Moscow, RUS	1st (67.99)
2009	Berlin, GER	9th (60.77)

European Championships

Year	Location	Discus Throw
2018	Berlin, GER	1st (67.62)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Discus Throw
2021	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd
2019	2 x 2nd, 2 x 3rd, 1 x 5th
2018	4 x 1st, 1 x 3rd
2017	4 x 1st, 1 x 2nd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2021	Discus Throw	Florence, ITA	68.31
1	2018	Discus Throw	London, GBR	67.24
1	2018	Discus Throw	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	68.60
1	2018	Discus Throw	Rome, ITA	68.93
1	2018	Discus Throw	Doha, QAT	71.38
1	2017	Discus Throw	Brussels, BEL	68.82
1	2017	Discus Throw	Birmingham, GBR	67.51
1	2017	Discus Throw	Oslo, NOR	66.79
1	2017	Discus Throw	Shanghai, CHN	66.94
2	2019	Discus Throw	Brussels, BEL	66.00
2	2019	Discus Throw	Paris Saint-Denis, FRA	65.01
2	2017	Discus Throw	Stockholm, SWE	67.75

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2020	Discus Throw	World Athletics Continental Tour	Zagreb, CRO	64.67
2	2021	Discus Throw	World Athletics Continental Tour	Hengelo, NED	65.80

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	Discus Throw	World Challenge	Zagreb, CRO	67.78
1	2018	Discus Throw	World Challenge	Zagreb, CRO	67.60
1	2018	Discus Throw	World Challenge	Turku, FIN	66.22
1	2017	Discus Throw	World Challenge	Zagreb, CRO	70.83

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Beba (jutanji.hr, 30 Jul 2010)

Occupation:

Partner Edis Elkasevic

Languages spoken:

Croatian, English, Italian

HAAK Mladost [Zagreb, CRO]

Edis Elkasevic [personal], CRO, from 2013

Sporting relatives:

Her partner Edis Elkasevic competed for Croatia in shot put at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. (tportal.hr, 04 Dec 2015; sports-reference.com, 2012)

At the beginning of the 2019 season she struggled with a left knee injury. Ahead of the finals at the 2019 World Championships in Doha, Qatar, she injured her back but competed and won a bronze medal. (net.hr, 06 Oct 2019; 24sata.hr, 17 Jun 2019)

In early 2013 she injured a shoulder, which prevented her from training for six weeks. (IAAF, 12 Aug 2013)

She took up athletics in the sixth grade of primary school, and focused on discus from her first year of high school. (IAAF, 05 Sep 2014)

"I was an active and playful child. I started athletics school plus I trained for basketball and volleyball because I was tall. It was clear athletics would prevail, and I began to intensively engage in shot put and hammer throw. In 2001 I came to AK Dinamo Zrinjevac and three years later started training with coach Ivan Ivancic. He immediately recognised my talent for throwing the discus and so it all began." (IAAF, 05 Sep 2014)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "Becoming the first woman to win three Olympic discus titles is my wish." (story.hr, 09 Feb 2020; hrt.hr, 07 Jan 2020; worldathletics.org, 20 Aug 2019)

She trains twice a day. (dnevnik.hr, 12 Feb 2020)

Winning a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. "I returned after suspension and won Olympic gold, the first one for Croatia won by women at the Summer Olympic Games." (dnevnik.hr, 12 Feb 2020)

Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlasic. (jutanji.hr, 30 Jul 2010)

Philosophy:

"If you want to make millions of dollars you should start to play tennis. I play this sport because I love it." (IAAF, 12 Aug 2013)

She was named Female Athlete of the Year by the Croatian Olympic Committee [HOO] eight times in a row from 2012 to 2019. (hoo.hr, 21 Dec 2015; direktno.hr, 19 Dec 2019)

She was named Female Athlete of the Year in Croatia by Sportske Novosti [Sport News] eight times in a row from 2012 to 2019. (tportal.hr, 29 Dec 2019)

She was named the 2015 Female Athlete of the Year by the Croatian Athletics Federation [HAS]. (hzsn.hr, 28 Nov 2015)

She was named the 2010 Female Rising Star by European Athletics. (european-athletics.org, 10 Dec 2010)

In 2009 she received the Drazen Petrovic Award in Croatia, which is given to young athletes for outstanding sporting results and sports development. (tportal.hr, 31 Aug 2009)

General Interest

General
FUTURE PLANS
She hopes to compete at a total of five editions of the Olympic Games, but would also like to take some time away from the sport to become a mother. "I want to do athletics for as long as I can, as long as I enjoy it and enter the stadium with a smile. I want to be a mother too. My wish is to go to five Olympic Games - one for each of the Olympic rings. I've been to two now, in London and Rio, and my next one will be Tokyo. After that, I want to compete in Paris in 2024 and in Los Angeles in 2028. Maybe that will be my last Olympics and my last season." (24sata.hr, 26 Dec 2019; worldathletics.org, 20 Aug 2019)

PARTNER AND COACH
Since 2013 she has been coached by her partner Edis Elkasevic. "We started our cooperation as a couple. We knew that it might be difficult, and we have had our ups and downs, but fortunately everything has gone well. We agreed that he is the boss at stadium, and I am the boss at home, and this arrangement works perfectly." (dnevnik.hr, 12 Feb 2020)

POLITICIAN
She spent time as a member of the Croatian parliament but failed to gain re-election in the national vote of September 2016. (tportal.hr, 04 Dec 2015; index.hr, 09 Nov 2015; dnevno.hr, 12 Sep 2016; sabor.hr, 2016)

SANCTION
In 2011 she tested positive for the prohibited substance methylhexanamine at Diamond League events in Rome, Italy, and Shanghai, People's Republic of China. She claimed she had consumed an energy drink without knowing it contained the substance. She was banned from the sport for six months by the Croatian Athletics Federation [HAS], and became eligible to return to competition in December 2011. (IAAF, 05 Sep 2014)

Milestones

Her gold medal in discus at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was Croatia's first Olympic gold medal in athletics, and Croatia's first Olympic gold won by a female athlete from any summer sport. Four years later she won gold at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to become Croatia's first female athlete to win more than one summer Olympic gold medal, and the first Croatian athlete of either gender to successfully defend an Olympic gold medal. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 May 2020)

Her gold medal in discus at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Russian Federation, was Croatia's first world championship discus gold medal. The medal also saw her become the first female to complete the 'Grand Slam' of discus titles at the world championships, European championships and Olympic Games. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 May 2020; IAAF, 11 Aug 2013)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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