PARLOV KOSTRO Matea

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Marathon
2019	Doha, QAT	DNF

World Marathon Majors

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
20	Marathon	2018/2019	Berlin, GER	2:38:05

Platinum Label Road Races

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
18	Marathon	2020	Valencia, ESP	2:28:52

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

Spending time with friends and her husband, reading books. (journal.hr, 02 Oct 2019)

Athlete

Kinesiology - University of Zagreb, Croatia

Husband Drazen Kostro

Croatian, English

AK Svetice [Zagreb, CRO]

Slavko Petrovic [personal], CRO

She is a family relative of boxer Mate Parlov, who won gold representing Yugoslavia in the light heavyweight category at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Her husband Drazen Kostro has coached football in the youth categories of NK Rudes in Zagreb, Croatia. (24sata.hr, 28 Dec 2020; irb.hr, 2018; SportsDeskOnline, 22 Feb 2021)

She took up athletics in the eighth grade of primary school. She began focusing on the marathon in 2018 at AK Svetice in Zagreb, Croatia. (trcanje.net, 16 Dec 2020; dnevnik.hr, 10 Dec 2020)

"First my dad signed me up to handball training, and handball was my first love. In the eighth grade of primary school I competed in the 600m in inter-school competition. My physical education teacher was also an athletics coach, and she encouraged me to take up the sport. I began training and soon started achieving good results in competitions, so I decided to give up handball." Coach Slavko Petrovic encouraged her to take up marathon running after she changed clubs. (hkm.hr, 08 Feb 2021; trcanje.net, 16 Dec 2020)

To record a personal best at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (24sata.hr, 28 Dec 2020)

She runs up to 30 kilometres per day. (24sata.hr, 28 Dec 2020)

Qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Games through her performance at the 2020 Valencia Marathon in Spain. (dnevnik.hr, 10 Dec 2020; jutarnji.hr, 06 Dec 2020)

Yugoslavian boxer Mate Parlov. "Everyone in our family is proud of him. My dream is to follow him in winning medals. In the past I promised everyone that Mate Parlov won't stay the only Olympian in our family and now I'm fulfilling this promise." (hkm.hr, 08 Feb 2021; dnevnik.hr, 10 Dec 2020)

Her family, and coach Slavko Petrovic. (dnevnik.hr, 10 Dec 2020)