Ivona Dadic

Ivona Dadic
Dadic in the 2016 Olympic outfit
nation	Austria
birthday	29th December 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Wels , Austria
size	179 cm
Weight	64 kg
job	Army athlete
Career
discipline	Heptathlon , pentathlon , long jump
Best performance	Pentathlon : 4767 points Heptathlon : 6552 points Long jump : 6.49 m
society	PSV-Wels (until 2014) Union St. Pölten (since 2015)
Trainer	Philipp Unfried and Gregor Högler
status	active
Medal table
Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European Indoor Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Indoor world championships silver Birmingham 2018 4700 points  European championships bronze Amsterdam 2016 6408 points  European Indoor Championships silver Belgrade 2017 4767 points  U23 European Championships bronze Tallinn 2015 6033 points
last change: June 6, 2020

Ivona Dadic (born December 29, 1993 in Wels ) is an Austrian athlete and multiple national champion in heptathlon .

career path

The Upper Austrian Ivona Dadic attended elementary school in Offenhausen and later the commercial school for competitive sports in Linz . Since 2012 she has been an army athlete in the Army Sports Center (HSLZ) of the Austrian Armed Forces in Linz and has been training at the Südstadt Sports Center since 2014.

Athletic career

Your first trainer was Michael Hager from PSV-Wels and later the support was taken over by Wolfgang Adler. At the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010 , Dadic was sixth in the long jump . In the heptathlon she reached tenth place at the 2011 Junior European Championships in Tallinn . In 2012, at the all-around meeting in Götzis , the then 18-year-old improved Sigrid Kirchmann's Austrian national record from 1985 from 5944 to 5959 points. Dadic qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and was the first Austrian in heptathlon to take part in the Olympic Games. With 5935 points, she finished 25th.

At the U23 European Championships in Tallinn ( Estonia ) in 2015 , she won the bronze medal and improved her own national record to 6033 points. She was also part of the Austrian 4 x 400 meter relay , which was disqualified in the final. Nevertheless, Dadic was not nominated for the World Championships in Beijing . After the World Championships, she improved her national record to 6151 points at the Décastar all- around meeting in Talence (France). Since 2015 the woman from Wels has started for the St. Pölten Sports Union . As Neo-St. Pölten she was elected Sportswoman of the Year in Lower Austria for 2016 and Athlete of the Year in Austria.

In March 2017 Dadic won silver in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade

At the European Championships in Amsterdam in July 2016 , Dadic won the bronze medal in the heptathlon with the new Austrian record of 6408 points. With this achievement, she had also qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she finished 21st in August. On February 5, 2017, Dadic beat Verena Preiner's Austrian national record by 34 points to 4520 points. At the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade in 2017 , she improved her own record to 4767 points on March 3rd, winning the silver medal behind Belgian Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam . At the World Championships in London Dadic finished 6th with a new national record of 6,417 points.

In February 2018, Dadic achieved an annual world best in pentathlon at the state championships in the all-around event in the Vienna Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion with 4692 points. At the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham on March 2, she won the silver medal in the pentathlon with a season high of 4700 points. Dadic decided not to start at the Götzis all- around meeting in May 2018 in order to have three more important weeks to prepare for the European Championships in Berlin . As the runner-up at the all-around meeting in Ratingen, Ivona Dadic missed a new Austrian heptathlon record in June 2018 with 6413 points by just 4 points. At the European Championships in Berlin , the 24-year-old from Upper Austria improved her own Austrian record to 6552 points in August, finishing fourth in the heptathlon. According to the evaluation of the IAAF World Annual Best List 2018, the three Austrian heptathletes Ivona Dadic (6552 points), Verena Preiner (6337 points; Union Ebensee) and Sarah Lagger (6225 points; TGW Decathlon Union) took first place in the global nation ranking for the first time.

In 2019 she finished 4th in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow . With 4702 points, she was only 21 points short of bronze and 29 points of silver. In June she was second behind Verena Preiner at the all-around meeting in Ratingen with 6461 points .

In 2012 Dadic was Austrian champion in heptathlon as well as in 2017 in the shot put and in 2018 in the long jump. In the hall she secured the championship titles in the pentathlon in 2011 and 2012 as well as in 2017 and 2018. In 2017 she also won the long jump and the 4 x 200 meter relay and in 2019 the long and high jump .

family

Ivona Dadics parents Nino and Danica Dadić are Croats , at the time of the Croatian-Bosnian war from Bosnia fled to Austria. Her older brother Ivan was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident when he was 18. A tattooed cross and the name "Ivan" on the inside of her right wrist are a reminder of this.

Awards

Ivona Dadic at the Sporthilfe Gala 2017

• 2016: Austrian athlete of the year

Personal best

(As of March 3, 2019)

Hall

• Pentathlon: 4767 points, March 3, 2017, Belgrade

discipline	Result	Points
60 m hurdles	8.45 s	1028
high jump	1.87 m	1067
Shot put	13.93 m	789
Long jump	6.41 m	978
800 m	2: 14.13 min	905

• Long jump: 6.42 m, March 1, 2019 in Glasgow

open air

• Heptathlon: 6552 points, August 10, 2018, Berlin

discipline	Result	Points
100 m hurdles	13.66 s	1027
high jump	1.82 m	1003
Shot put	14.06 m	798
200 m	23.61 s	1018
Long jump	6.35 m	959
Javelin throw	47.42 m	810
800 m	2: 11.87 min	937

• Long jump: 6.49 m (+0.5 m / s), June 10, 2016 in Ried im Innkreis

Web links

Commons : Ivona Dadic  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ivona Dadic in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ivona Dadic in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Steve Landells: That moment when - Dadic broke through ( English ) IAAF. April 8, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austrian Athletics Association : Olympic Games: Ivona Dadic in the heptathlon of the premieres - preview ( memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 1, 2012 
2. ↑ Austrian Athletics Association : Olympic Games: Ivona Dadic takes 25th place in the heptathlon and almost creates the Austrian record! ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 4, 2012 
3. ↑ HDsports: U 23 EM: Dadic wins EM bronze with a record , July 10, 2015
4. ↑ ÖLV quintet took tough World Cup standards - discus duo stands out derstandard.at August 18, 2015
5. ↑ Dadic in St. Pölten in the NÖN November 24, 2015, accessed on March 10, 2017.
6. ↑ Ivona Dadic: As St. Pölten in the new season on ORF from January 14, 2017, accessed on January 14, 2017.
7. ↑ ORF Sport of July 10, 2016
8. ↑ Ivona Dadic finished the heptathlon on 21st (August 14, 2016)
9. ↑ European Athletics Indoor Championships, Belgrade (Serbia) 3-5 March 2017, Pentathlon Women
10. ↑ Dadic triumphs at state championships (February 6, 2018)
11. ↑ Ivona Dadic wins World Cup silver in pentathlon (March 2, 2018)
12. ↑ Ivona Dadic: All around in Ratingen instead of home game in Götzis , all around outlook, on: Leichtathletik.de, March 9, 2018, accessed March 12, 2018
13. ↑ Dadic missed the Heptathlon ÖR in Ratingen by four points ( memento of the original from June 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (June 17, 2018) 
14. ↑ Ivona Dadic pulverizes the Austrian heptathlon record. HDsports, August 10, 2018, accessed August 11, 2018 . 
15. ↑ "This is a challenge" (August 10, 2018)
16. ↑ Austria's number 1 female heptathlete in the world
17. ↑ European Indoor Athletics Championships 2019: No medal for Ivona Dadic and Verena Preiner. In: HDsports. March 2, 2019, accessed March 2, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Verena Preiner crowns Ratinger Heptathlon with an Austrian record (June 30, 2019)
19. ↑ ÖLV: Olympic Games: Ivona Dadic in the heptathlon of the premieres - preview ( memento of the original from July 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ^ ÖOC: Interview from November 24, 2015
21. ↑ Ivona Dadic: austrijska atletičarka hrvatskih korijena. Retrieved July 10, 2016 . 
22. ↑ Ivona Dadic: "My brother is always with me" (August 9, 2016)
23. ↑ Tattoos: bets, strokes of fate and many rings (August 22, 2016)