MIHALINEC ZIDAR Maja

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	Round 1 (23.38)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m	200m
2019	Doha, QAT	Heats (11.32)	SF (22.81)
2015	Beijing, CHN	Heats (11.42)	SF (23.04)

European Games

Year	Location	100m
2019	Minsk, BLR	Heat 2 (11.36)

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

Year	100m
2020	1 x 5th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
5	2020	100m	Monaco, MON	11.44

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
3	2020	100m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Zagreb, CRO	11.55
5	2020	100m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Chorzow, POL	11.61
5	2020	200m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Szekesfehervar, HUN	23.51
7	2020	150m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	17.30

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	200m	World Challenge	Zagreb, CRO	22.88

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

Athlete

Communications, Journalism, Language Studies - Spanish - University of Nebraska Omaha, United States of America

Husband Luka Zidar

English, Slovene, Spanish

AD Mass Ljubljana [Slovenia]

Srdjan Djordjevic [personal], SLO

Her younger sister Katja has played volleyball at youth international level, and won silver representing Slovenia at the 2014 Junior European Championships in Finland and Estonia. Her mother Damijana has coached volleyball at club level in Slovenia. Her husband Luka Zidar has competed in high jump at national level in Slovenia. (SportsDeskOnline, 03 Jul 2020; delo.si, 31 Mar 2020; ekipa24.si, 13 Oct 2015; worldathletics.org, 25 Feb 2018)

She suffered tendon and hip injuries while training in early 2020. (24ur.com, 08 May 2020)

From 2017 to 2019 she missed significant competition time due to injury. (siol.net, 01 Oct 2019; worldathletics.org, 15 Sep 2020; griffon-romano.it, 23 May 2019)

She missed the 2011/12 university season in the United States of America because of injury. (omavs.com, 01 Jun 2013)

She took up athletics when she was in primary school. (ekipa24.si, 13 Oct 2015)

She initially followed her mother into volleyball, but her physical education teacher persuaded her to try athletics. She tried to do both sports but soon found she would have to focus on one. She chose athletics because she was starting to do well in the sport and she enjoyed the company of her fellow athletes. (ekipa24.si, 13 Oct 2015)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (siol.net, 01 Oct 2019)

Her parents. (govori.se, 04 Feb 2016)

She was named Female Athlete of the Year in 2015 and 2019 by the Athletic Federation of Slovenia [AZS]. (tekac.si, 17 Nov 2019; atletska-zveza.si, 14 Nov 2015)