MATIC Barbara

Olympic Games

Year	Location	-70 kg
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	17

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	-63 kg
2010	Singapore, SIN	3

World Championships

Year	Location	-70 kg	Team X
2021	Budapest, HUN	1	-
2019	Tokyo, JPN	17	-
2017	Budapest, HUN	17	9
2015	Astana, KAZ	17	-
2014	Chelyabinsk, RUS	5	-

European Championships

Year	Location	-70 kg	Team
2020	Prague, CZE	9	-
2019	Minsk, BLR	3	-
2018	Tel Aviv, ISR	5	-
2017	Warsaw, POL	3	3

World Masters

Year	Location	-70 kg
2021	Doha, QAT	17
2019	Qingdao, CHN	9
2018	Guangzhou, CHN	9
2017	St. Petersburg, RUS	2

Grand Slam - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	9th	16th	17th	30th-33rd
2021	-70 kg	-	2x	-	-	-	2x	-	-	-
2020	-70 kg	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2019	-70 kg	-	-	-	1x	1x	-	-	-	-
2018	-70 kg	-	1x	1x	-	-	2x	-	-	-
2017	-70 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-	-	-

Grand Prix - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2020	-70 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x
2019	-70 kg	-	-	-	-	2x	-	-	-	-
2018	-70 kg	-	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2017	-70 kg	-	-	2x	1x	-	-	-	-	-

World Cup - Tally of rank achieved per season and event since 2017

Year	Event	1st	2nd	3rd	4rd	5th	7th	8th	9th	10th	15th-33rd
2019	-70 kg	-	-	1x	-	-	1x	-	-	-	-

Grand Slam, Grand Prix & World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2020	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Budapest, HUN
2	2021	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Antalya, TUR
2	2021	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Tashkent, UZB
2	2018	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Dusseldorf, GER
3	2019	-70 kg	World Cup	Cluj-Napoca, ROU
3	2018	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Yekaterinburg, RUS
3	2017	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Baku, AZE
3	2017	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Hohhot, CHN
3	2017	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Antalya, TUR
5	2019	-70 kg	Grand Slam	Abu Dhabi, UAE
5	2017	-70 kg	Grand Prix	Zagreb, CRO

Barby (Athlete, 06 Aug 2010)

Spending time with friends and family, watching movies. (jutarnji.hr, 16 Jun 2021)

Athlete

Electrical Engineering, Information Technology - University of Split, Croatia

Partner Frano Vugdelija

Croatian, English

JK Pujanke [Split, CRO]

Vladimir Preradovic [club, national], CRO

Her younger sister Brigita has also represented Croatia in judo. She won gold in the -78kg category and bronze in the mixed team event at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, People's Republic of China. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 Jul 2021; ijf.org, 28 Apr 2015)

She took up judo at age six at the JK Pujanke club in Split, Croatia. (ijf.org, 28 Apr 2015)

She decided to try the sport after watching a presentation by coaches Vladimir Preradovic and Slavko Preradovic. "I was in the first grade of primary school when coaches Vladimir and Slavko came to our sport class to show us judo. I immediately liked it and once I came back home I told my mum, 'I want to be a judoka', and that was it." (ijf.org, 28 Apr 2015)

To win an Olympic medal. (judo.hr, 10 Jun 2021)

She trains twice a day, with sessions in the morning and evening. (jutarnji.hr, 16 Jun 2021)

Winning gold at the 2021 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. (judo.hr, 10 Jun 2021; jutarnji.hr, 16 Jun 2021)

Croatian alpine skier Janica Kostelic. (ijf.org, 28 Apr 2015)

Her family. (jutarnji.hr, 16 Jun 2021)

"Impossible is nothing." (Instagram profile, 2016)