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Sandra Perković (born 21 June 1990) is a Croatian discus thrower, reigning European, World and Olympic champion.〔 Perković's successful junior career culminated in winning gold at the 2009 European Junior Championships with a new national record. A month later, she made the final of the World Championships as the youngest discus thrower in the field. In her first year of senior competition she won gold at the 2010 European Championships, becoming the youngest ever European champion in women's discus throw. A six-month doping suspension after testing positive for a banned psychostimulant kept her out of competition for most of the 2011 season, including the World Championships, but she returned in strong form in 2012 and successfully defended her title in the European Championships. Perković is coached by Edis Elkasević. Her personal best and national record is 71.08 meters, set in August 2014 at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Letzigrund, Switzerland.〔http://www.european-athletics.org/videos/video=sandra-perkovic-cro-gold-medal-winner-discus-throw-women/ Sandra Perkovic (CRO), Gold Medal Winner Discus Throw Women]〕 ==Early life and junior career== Perković started with athletics in the second grade of elementary school, and also played basketball and volleyball.〔 By the 6th grade, athletics prevailed and Perković concentrated on shot put and discus throw.〔 In 2001 she joined the Dinamo-Zrinjevac athletics club.〔 Since 2004 she has been coached by former Olympic shot putter Ivan Ivančić, who recognized her talent in discus throw.〔 In her first year with the new coach, she improved her personal best from 32 to over 50 meters, as Ivančić had predicted. First successes in discus throw came in 2006.〔 In her first major competition, the 2006 World Junior Championships, Perković failed to make the final, but became a regular international medalist thereafter, winning silver medals in both the World Youth Championships and the European Junior Championships in 2007, and a bronze in the 2008 World Junior Championships. She was ranked 5th in the 2008 junior world list with 55.89 m. Perković suffered a very serious setback in early 2009, after doctors misdiagnosed her appendicitis.〔 Her appendix burst after three days, which caused a near-fatal sepsis that required two emergency surgeries and a lengthy recovery.〔 She lost of body weight in the process and was initially not expected to return to full training before the end of the year.〔〔 However, Perković resumed training after a three-month break, and returned to competition by winning the discus throw gold medal at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Novi Sad in July 2009, where she set a new national record with a 62.44 m throw, and also met the A standard for the World Championships.〔 Her performance was the best in the European Junior Championships for 20 years, with a winning margin of 7 meters and 33 centimeters, the largest in the history of the Championships.〔 Her other two legal marks in the final would also have been sufficient for the gold.〔 A month later, she placed 9th at her first major senior competition, the 2009 World Championships in Athletics, as the youngest discus thrower in the field, including the qualifiers.〔 Later in the year she improved the national record to 62.79 m.〔 Her throws ultimately captured top eleven spots in the 2009 junior discus throw world list. Following her successful 2009 season, she was named by the ''SPIKES'' magazine as one of "ten rising stars to watch in 2010", and received the Croatian Olympic Committee's Dražen Petrović Award as the most promising Croatian female athlete in 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sandra Perković」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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