Alanah Yukich
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 January 1998 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint, Hurdles | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 400m: 52.53 (Waco, 2024) 400m hurdles: 55.04 (Memphis, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Alanah Yukich (born 27 January 1998) is an Australian athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles.[1]
Early life
[edit]She grew up on a farm in Gingin, Western Australia, a small town 78.3 kilometres north-west of Perth. She moved to United States to be a student-athlete at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and graduated in 2023. She continued to live and train in Texas where she is coached by Rose Monday. She has Croatian heritage.[2][3]
Career
[edit]She competed at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay.[4]
She won the 400m hurdles at the 2022 Conference USA outdoor track meet.[5]
In April 2024, she was selected as part of the Australian team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.[6]
In June 2024, she ran a personal best for the 400 metres hurdles of 55.15 seconds as she tried to achieve Olympic qualification, competing in five different countries in sixteen days.[2] She competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, where she reached the semi finals.[7][8]
She was runner-up in the 400 metres hurdles at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth on 13 April 2025 in a time of 55.29 seconds.[9] She was a member of the Australian team in the Mixed 4x400m relay at the 2025 World Athletics Relays which set a new Oceania record of 3:12.34, taking nearly five seconds off the previous best mark set in 2021, and became the first Mixed team in Australian history to qualify for a major championships, qualifying on the first day of the competition for the 2025 World Championships. Australia went on to win the silver medal in the final of the event.[10][11] On the second day of the competition she ran in the Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, also helping that team to qualify for the World Championships.[12]
She ran a personal best 55.04 seconds for the 400 metres hurdles to finish second behind Tia-Adana Belle at the Ed Murphey Track Classic, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meet, on 12 July in Memphis, Tennessee.[13]
Personal life
[edit]She has also worked as a model.[14] She is of Croatian descent.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alanah Yukich". World Athletics. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ a b Gates, Zachary. "'I'm having mad caffeine withdrawals': Australian hurdler Alanah Yukich's wild globe-trotting bid to qualify for Olympics". Nine.com.
- ^ Withers, Courtney (16 July 2024). "From Gingin to Paris, Alanah Yukich's Olympic dream is about to come true". abc.net. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
- ^ "U-20 World Champs: Six Jamaicans advance". Jamaica Observer. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Rossow, Adam (20 May 2022). "A winner on and off the track: UTSA's Alanah Yukich". Spectrumlocalnews. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "RESURGENT AUSTRALIAN SPRINTING SQUAD TARGETS PARIS QUALIFICATION AT WORLD ATHLETICS RELAY CHAMPIONSHIPS". Athleticswest. 24 April 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Women's 400m Hurdles Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
- ^ Adams, Tim (8 July 2024). "Australia take second largest ever team to Paris Olympics". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Australian Championships". World Athletics. 13 April 2025. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Mixed 4x400m silver caps successful world relay championships for Australia". The Guardian. 12 May 2025. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN MIXED 4X400M RELAY TEAM PUNCH TICKETS TO TOKYO WITH OCEANIA RECORD". Athletics.com.au. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
- ^ "Women's 4x400 Metres Relay - World Athletics Relays Championships 2025". Watch Athletics. 11 May 2025. Retrieved 13 May 2025.
- ^ "Adrian Kerr Seals Tokyo 2025 Berth as Caribbean Athletes Deliver at Ed Murphey Track Classic". Track Alerts. 13 July 2025. Retrieved 13 July 2025.
- ^ "Strong is beautiful as illustrated by Rock Star – Alanah Yukich". Rocktape. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Alana Yukich Instagram.com
External links
[edit]- Alanah Yukich at World Athletics
- Alanah Yukich at Australian Athletics
- Alanah Yukich at Australian Athletics Historical Results
- Alanah Yukich at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Alanah Yukich at Olympics.com
- Alanah Yukich on Instagram
