Anete Kociņa

Anete Kociņa
Anete Kociņa (middle) in Bydgoszcz 2017
nation	Latvia
birthday	2nd May 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Limbaži , Latvia
Career
discipline	Javelin
Best performance	64.47 m (July 16, 2017 in Bydgoszcz )
Trainer	Valentina Eiduka
status	active
Medal table
U23 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U18 world championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
U23 European Championships silver Bydgoszcz 2017 64.47 m  Junior European Championships silver Eskilstuna 2015 58.88 m  Youth World Championships bronze Donetsk 2013 54.26 m
last change: January 12, 2020

Anete Kociņa (born May 2, 1995 in Limbaži ) is a Latvian javelin thrower .

Athletic career

Anete Kociņa made her first international appearance at the World Youth Championships in Donetsk in 2013, where she won the bronze medal with 54.26 meters. In 2014 she took part in the Junior World Championships in Eugene and was eliminated from the qualification there. In 2015 she won the silver medal at the U20 European Championships in Eskilstuna, Sweden . In 2017, she won the silver medal behind Olympic champion Sara Kolak from Croatia at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz , where she improved her record to 64.47 meters. So she qualified for the World Championships in London , where she was eliminated as 13th in the qualification . A few weeks later, she finished sixth at the World Student Games in Taipei .

In 2018, Kociņa took part in the European Championships in Berlin for the first time, but was eliminated there with 57.48 m in the qualification. Also at the World Championships in Doha the following year , 56.70 m was not enough for a final .

Web links

• Anete Kocina in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Result list of the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz 2017