Sara Vilic

0 Sara Vilic
Personal information
Date of birth	29th March 1992 (age 28)
place of birth	Gmünd in Lower Austria
size	170 cm
Weight	56 kg
societies
since 2013	U23 squad ÖTRV
current	ÖTRV A-squad, Klagenfurt Swimming Club , Pewag Racing Team, Stade Poitevin Triathlon and OMNi-BiOTiC POWER Triathlon Team
successes
2011	U23 world champion aquathlon
2016	37th place Summer Olympics
2016	24th place world championship triathlon short distance
status
active

Sara Vilic (born March 29, 1992 in Gmünd ) is an Austrian triathlete , U23 World Champion Aquathlon (2011) and Olympian (2016).

Career

Sara Vilic started swimming at SV Villach when she was seven and competed in several national championships. She was accepted into the youth squad of the Austrian Swimming Federation and started in July 2008 at the World Championships in Rimini.

U23 World Champion Aquathlon 2011

In 2010, Sara Vilic from Carinthia was fifth at the World Aquathlon Championships (running, swimming and running) and in September 2011 the strong swimmer became the U23 world champion in China.

The dual citizen (Austria / Croatia) has been part of the U23 squad of the ÖTRV for Austria since 2013 . She competes in the French racing series Grand Prix de Triathlon for the Stade Poitevin Triathlon club .

At the Triathlon World Championship racing series in 2015 , Vilic was the second best Austrian and placed 58th.

2016 Summer Olympics

In March 2016, with seventh place in the first race of the world championship racing series, she was able to secure a starting place for the Olympic Games; she competed in Rio de Janeiro together with Julia Hauser (nominated for Lisa Perterer ) and Thomas Springer the 37th rank.

With 22nd place in the ninth and final race of the 2016 season (Grand Final), she finished 24th in the ITU's annual ranking.

In March 2017, the then 24-year-old was able to achieve the first medal for Austria with third place in the first race of the 2017 World Cup series in Abu Dhabi. At the European Triathlon Championships in June 2017 in Kitzbühel, she finished seventh as the best Austrian.

In the annual ranking of the ITU World Championship Series 2018 , she finished in 53rd place as the fourth-best Austrian after the last race in Australia in September. In July 2019, after finishing second in Tiszaújváros (Hungary), she won her second World Cup medal after 2013. She starts in the A-squad of the Austrian Triathlon Association (ÖTRV) and since 2020 in the OMNi-BiOTiC POWER triathlon team.

Sara Vilic lives in Villach and is trained by Martin Papista .

Sporting successes

(DNF - Did Not Finish )

Web links

• Official website of Sara Vilic
• Sara Vilic's profile and results in the ITU database at Triathlon.org , accessed on May 9, 2020 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2008: 5 times swimming gold on the first day of competition (July 2nd, 2008)
2. ↑ Sara Vilic will start for Austria in the future
3. ↑ ÖTRV Trio qualifies for the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 (May 18, 2016)
4. ↑ ITU World Triathlon Series Rankings 2016 | Elite Women (as of September 17, 2016)
5. ↑ Vilic on the podium of the World Cup series for the first time (March 3, 2017)
6. ↑ Hewitt wins in sprint thriller, Vilic surprised (March 3, 2017)
7. ↑ Vilic in the new OMNi-BiOTiC POWER triathlon team (May 8, 2020)
8. ↑ Sprint: Vilic and Weiss win Klosterneuburg Triathlon (May 20, 2018)
9. ↑ sensational! Vilic takes World Triathlon Series podium (March 3, 2017)
10. ↑ Sara Vilic sensationally ranked 7th (March 5th, 2016)
11. ↑ First competition after a compulsory sports break (May 30, 2019)