Tamara Salaški
 Tamara Salaški in 2016 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Born | 16 October 1988 Valjevo, Socialist Republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia |
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Serbia |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | 400 metres |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests |
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Tamara Salaški (Serbian Cyrillic: Тамара Салашки; born 16 October 1988) is a Serbian sprinter.[2] She competed for Serbia at the 2016 Rio Olympics with a result of 52.70 seconds. Her personal best is 51.89.
Career
[edit]Salaški set a Serbian national record in the women's 400 metres in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria when she ran the event in a time of 51.89 seconds in June 2016. This time was within the Olympic qualifying mark of 52.20 seconds, so it resulted in her qualification for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[3] In July of that year, she competed in the 400 metres at the 2016 European Athletics Championships.[4]
She ran in heat two of the women's 400 metres in Rio, finishing third in her heat behind American Allyson Felix and Olha Zemlyak of Ukraine. Her time of 52.70 seconds was 37th overall, with only the top two from each heat, plus the next eight fastest runners qualifying for the semi-finals.[5]
In February 2017 in Banjica, Salaški set a new national record in the indoor 400 metres, coming home in 52.99 seconds.[6] In August of that year, Salaški competed in the 400 metres at the World Championships in Athletics in London. Running in the heats, she recorded a time of 52.13 seconds on her way to a fifth-place finish in heat six. This was marginally insufficient to advance to the semi-finals, ending her competition.[7]
At the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Salaški qualified for the semi-finals of the 400 metres after running a time of 52.39 seconds in the heats.[8] In the semi-finals she ran a time of 53.20 which was last in her race for a result of 24th overall in the competition.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Rio 2016 bio". Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ^ "Tamara Salaški". World Athletics. n.d. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Tamara Salaški ispunila olimpijsku normu u trci na 400 metara". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 10 June 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ "NIŠTA OD POLUFINALA OI: Tamara Salaški 37. u kvalifikacijama na 400 metara". Kurir (in Serbian). 13 August 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "BRAVO! Tamara Salaški oborila nacionalni rekord na 400 metara! (VIDEO)". telgraf.rs (in Serbian). 18 February 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Tamari Salaški izmaklo polufinale Svetskog prvenstva". Kurir (in Serbian). 6 August 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "EP U BERLINU: Tamara Salaški se plasirala u polufinale trke na 400 metara". Kurir (in Serbian). 8 August 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ "Salaški ostala bez finala na Evropskom prvenstvu". sportal.blic.rs (in Serbian). 9 August 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
External links
[edit]- Tamara Salaški at World Athletics
- Tamara Salaški at European Athletics
- Tamara Salaški at Olympics.com
- Tamara Salaški at Olympedia
- Tamara Salaški at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (former profile) (in Serbian)
