Mirna Jukić

Mirna Jukić
Mirna Jukić with the bronze medal from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
Personal information
Surname:	Mirna Jukić
Nation:	Austria
Swimming style (s) :	Chest, layers
Society:	SC Austria Vienna
Birthday:	April 9, 1986
Place of birth:	Novi Sad , SR Serbia
Size:	1.78 m
Medal table

Mirna Jukić [ ˈmiːrna ˈjuːkitɕ ] (born April 9, 1986 in Novi Sad , Yugoslavia ) is a former Croatian - Austrian swimmer who competed for Austria. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she won the bronze medal over 100 breasts. She won over 200 breasts at the European Championships in 2002 and 2004 , and over 100 breasts at the 2008 championships. On the short course she was able to win the European Championships in 2002 and 2003 over 200 breasts .

Career

In November 1991, when she was five and a half years old, Jukić left her hometown Vukovar because of the war in Croatia . The family fled to Zagreb and was able to gain a foothold there again. At the age of 7½ years, Jukić started swimming training at HAPK Mladost Zagreb. Since September 1996 she was coached by her father Željko Jukić , a former basketball player . In 1999 the family moved to Vienna . Since 2000, Mirna Jukić has also been an Austrian citizen and therefore has two citizenships. She swam for SC Austria Wien, her disciplines were chest and stroke. Her younger brother Dinko is also a swimmer. In June 2005 she graduated from the Brigittenauer Gymnasium and then studied for a year at the Vienna University of Economics and Business . In the 2007 winter semester, she began studying journalism. Her mother Mirela is a professor at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb.

successes

Mirna Jukić

After three victories at the European Youth Championships in Malta in 2001 , the first two medals in the general class followed in December of the same year: silver over 100 m and 200 m chest at the European Short Course Championships in Antwerp . She won her first gold medals at the European Championships in 2002 in Berlin (long course) and Riesa (short course) each over 200 m breaststroke. In the same year she won bronze over this distance at the Short Course World Championships in Moscow and was voted Sportswoman of the Year in Austria . 2003 (short course, Dublin ) and 2004 (long course, Madrid ) each followed EM gold in their favorite discipline. At the European Short Course Championships in Vienna in 2004, she won silver over 100 m and 200 m breaststroke. In Athens , Jukić first took part in the Summer Olympics, where she was 14th over 100 m and seventh over 200 m. Winning the bronze medal over 200 m chest at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal was followed by a one-year break in training and competition due to an illness ( Pfeiffer glandular fever ).

It wasn't until 2007 that she started again at the European Short Course Championships in Debrecen , where she achieved silver in the 100 m and 200 m breasts. In March 2008 at the European Championships in Eindhoven she won gold over 100 m breasts, silver over 200 m breasts and bronze over 50 m breasts. At the 63rd Austrian State Championships at the end of July 2008, it briefly seemed as if she had set a new European record with the time of 02: 23.90 min over 200 m breasts, until it turned out that the 50 m pool in Schwechat was 4 cm is too short. As a result, her European record was invalid, but all Austrian records set by other swimmers in these competitions remained valid.

M. Jukić planting the Mirna palm in the Vienna Palm House (April 2008).

At the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing in 2008 , she set another European record in the run-up to the 100 m breaststroke with 01: 07.06, this time valid, which, however, was surpassed a few minutes later by Julija Jefimowa with 01: 06.08. On August 12, 2008, Jukić won her first Olympic medal in the final over this distance in 1: 07.34 with bronze. It was the first Olympic medal for an Austrian female swimmer in an individual competition and the first for a female swimmer since the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm (4 × 100 m freestyle relay). On August 14th, Jukić achieved another European record in the semi-finals over 200 m breaststroke with 2: 23.76, which she was able to improve one day later with 2: 23.24 in the final. She finished fourth, but at the same time had to surrender the European record to third-placed Norwegian Sara Nordenstam (2: 23.02).

In addition, she achieved numerous World Cup victories as well as Austrian championship titles and was able to win several meetings of the “ Mare-Nostrum ” and the “Arena” series. In 2003 and 2008, she was second overall in the “Mare-Nostrum” series, which was excellently represented by top swimmers. Mirna Jukić holds 13 Austrian records (as of August 2008). In October 2008, Jukić was voted Austrian Sportswoman of the Year for the second time since 2002 .

At the European Short Course Championships in Rijeka in December 2008 , Jukić won the bronze medal over 100 m breaststroke and set a new Austrian record with 1: 05.64 minutes. During the Austrian indoor championship on February 28, 2009, she set a new European record in the 200 m chest in 02: 22.91 minutes. In August of the same year at the World Swimming Championships in Rome , she improved the Austrian record in preliminaries over 100 m breaststroke and set a new European record over 200 m breaststroke, in the final she reached third place. In November 2009, Jukić was voted Austrian Sportswoman of the Year for the third time after 2002 and 2008 .

She competed in her last competition on August 9, 2009 at the Austrian State Championships in St. Pölten, and on September 23, 2010 she announced that she would stop competitive sport.

Records

Austrian Records (12)
50 m chest	00: 31.32 min	August 1, 2009	Rome
100 m chest	01: 06.58 min	July 27, 2009	Rome
200 m chest	02: 21.97 min	July 30, 2009	Rome
200 m layers	02: 13.29 min	April 26, 2009	Vienna
4 × 100 m layers (with Polansky , Stecher and Zahrl )	04: 21.31 min	August 10, 2003	catfish
50 m chest (short course)	00: 30.54 min	April 10, 2008	Manchester
100 m chest (short course)	01:05:24 min	December 21, 2008	Vienna
200 m chest (short course)	02: 19.23 min	December 20, 2008	Vienna
100 m layers (short course)	01: 01.59 min	November 30, 2008	Vienna
200 m layers (short course)	02: 09.07 min	December 21, 2008	Zagreb
4 × 200 m freestyle (short course) (with Gimborn , Stecher and Zahrl )	08: 26.43 min	March 7, 2003	Wiener Neustadt
4 × 100 m layers (short course) (with Polansky , Stecher and Zahrl )	04: 01.47 min	March 9, 2003	Wiener Neustadt
(As of December 31, 2009)

Croatian Records (1)
200 m chest	2: 27.63 min	2001
(As of April 24, 2011.)

Awards

Mirna Jukić and Wolfgang Loitzl with the awards as Austria's Sportsman of the Year 2009

• 2003: Gold Medal of Merit of the Republic of Austria
• 2004: Great Sports Prize of the City of Vienna
• Triple Sportswoman of the Year (2002, 2008, 2009)

Others

• Mirna Jukić worked as a team guide for the Croatian national team during the 2010 European handball championship, which took place in Austria.
• In 2011 she danced in the new edition of Dancing Stars with professional Gerhard Egger.
• Mirna Jukić has been supporting the social project Mirno More Peace Fleet for several years , in which she actively participated for the first time in 2011. For this commitment, she was honored in 2014 as an athlete with a heart .
• At the end of September 2012, she made her debut on ORF SPORT + as a presenter of the children's, youth and school sports magazine "Schule geht"
• Mirna Jukić has been married to the Austrian volleyball player Alexander Berger since 2015 .

literature

• Mirna Jukić with Martin Sörös: Under water, about life . Verlag Wolfgang Drabesch, Vienna 2011. ISBN 978-3-9501089-6-5

Web links

Commons : Mirna Jukić  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mirna Jukić's website
• Mirna Jukic in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Mirna Jukić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• OSV: Mirna Jukic says goodbye (September 24, 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jukic won the short-course European Championship bronze over 100 m chest
2. ↑ Mirna Jukic rises from the water ( German ) Der Standard . September 23, 2010. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
3. ↑ Croatian Swimming Association
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6. ↑ http://www.ocean7.at/news,id1626,mirna_jukic_bei_friedensflotte_2011.html
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