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| Nationality |  Serbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 May 2000 Pančevo, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Medley, butterfly, freestyle, backstroke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | UCAM Club Natación Fuensanta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anja Crevar (Serbian Cyrillic: Ања Цревар; born 24 May 2000) is a Serbian swimmer, and a member of the UCAM Club Natación Fuensanta.
She won a bronze medal at the 2015 European Games in 400m medley style with a new national record. At the 2015 Junior World Championship held in Singapore, at the age of 15, she came in 5th place in the finals with a new national record in the 400m medley. With her time in the race, she qualified to represent Serbia at the 2016 Olympic Games.[1][2] She was the youngest athlete to represent Serbia at 16 years old. She then went on to compete in the 2020 Olympic Games and the 2024 Olympic Games.[3]
In October 2018, she won the silver medal in the girls' 200 m individual medley at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, behind gold medal winner Anastasia Gorbenko of Israel.[4] In February 2024 she was placed 4th in the women's 400 metre individual medley at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Anji lični, državni rekord i norma za Rio!" [Personal and national record for Anja and Olympic standard for Rio!] (in Serbian). B92. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anja Crevar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019.
- ^ "CREVAR Anja".
- ^ "Israeli 15-year old swimmer wins gold in Youth Olympic Games," Archived 24 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Haaretz.
- ^ "Srpska plivačica Anja Crevar osvojila četvrto mesto na Svetskom prvenstvu na 400 metara mešovito".
External links
[edit]- Anja Crevar at World Aquatics
- Anja Crevar at Swimrankings.net
- Anja Crevar at Olympedia (archive)
- Anja Crevar at Olympics.com
- Anja Crevar at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (former profile) (in Serbian)
