Jump to content

Anja Crevar

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anja Crevar
Personal information
Nationality Serbia
Born (2000-05-24) 24 May 2000 (age 25)
Pančevo, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Height164 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesMedley, butterfly, freestyle, backstroke
ClubUCAM Club Natación Fuensanta
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Serbia
European Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 2021 Kazan 400 m medley
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Tarragona 400 m medley
European U-23 Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Dublin 200 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2023 Dublin 400 m medley
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires 200 m medley
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Indianapolis 400 m medley
European Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku 400 m medley
European Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 400 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2017 Netanya 400 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2017 Netanya 200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Hódmezővásárhely 200 m medley

Anja Crevar (Serbian Cyrillic: Ања Цревар; born 24 May 2000)[1] is a Serbian swimmer, and a member of the UCAM Club Natación Fuensanta. She is the 2021 European Short Course Championships and 2018 Mediterranean Games silver medalist in the 400 metre individual medley. She won a silver medal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in the 200 metre individual medley. She also represented Serbia at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Summer Olympics.

Career

[edit]

Crevar began swimming when she was five years old and followed her older sister Aleksandra into the sport.[2]

Crevar won a bronze medal at the 2015 European Games in the 400 metre individual medley.[3] At the 2015 Junior World Championships held in Singapore, at the age of 15, she came in fifth place in the finals with a new national record in the 400 metre individual medley. With her time in the race, she qualified to represent Serbia at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[4] She was the youngest athlete to represent Serbia at 16 years and 74 days old.[2] She finished 27th in the 200 metre individual medley and 20th in the 400 metre individual medley.[5][6]

Crevar won a bronze medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 2017 World Junior Championships.[7] Then at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, she won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley behind Spain's Catalina Corró.[8] In October 2018, she won the silver medal in the 200 metre individual medley at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, behind gold medal winner Anastasia Gorbenko of Israel.[9]

Crevar represented Serbia at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing 10th in the 400 metre individual medley and 26th in the 200 metre individual medley.[10][11] She then competed at the 2021 European Short Course Championships and tied with Sara Franceschi for the silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley.[12]

Crevar competed at the 2023 European U-23 Championships and won silver medals in the 200 metre butterfly and the 400 metre individual medley.[13] In February 2024, she was placed fourth in the 400 metre individual medley at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.[14] She then represented Serbia at the 2024 Summer Olympics and finished 17th in the 200 metre butterfly and 16th in the 400 metre individual medley.[15][16]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anja Crevar". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Crevar Anja". 2024 Summer Olympics. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024.
  3. ^ Rowbottom, Mike (23 June 2015). "Britain rule the pool on day one of the European Games swimming". Inside the Games. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  4. ^ "Anji lični, državni rekord i norma za Rio!" [Personal and national record for Anja and Olympic standard for Rio!] (in Serbian). B92. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Rio 2016 Swimming 200m individual medley women Results". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  6. ^ "Rio 2016 Swimming 400m individual medley women Results". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  7. ^ Eggert, Gregory. "Indianapolis, Day 1 - Italy's Martinenghi, Canada's Ruck break World Junior Records". World Athletics. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  8. ^ "2018 Mediterranean Games Women, 400m Medley" (PDF). Tarragona 2018. 23 June 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  9. ^ "Israeli 15-year old swimmer wins gold in Youth Olympic Games," Archived 24 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine Haaretz.
  10. ^ "Swimming Women's 400m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. International Olympic Committee. 24 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Swimming Women's 200m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. International Olympic Committee. 26 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  12. ^ "2021 European Short Course Championships Post-Meet Digest". SwimSwam. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  13. ^ Ferrari Kehoe, Lydia (12 August 2023). "European U23: World Junior Record Holder Petar Mitsin Claims Gold for Bulgaria on Night Two in Dublin". European Aquatics. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  14. ^ "Srpska plivačica Anja Crevar osvojila četvrto mesto na Svetskom prvenstvu na 400 metara mešovito".
  15. ^ "Swimming Women's 200m Butterfly Heats" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. 31 July 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  16. ^ "Swimming Women's 400m Individual Medley Heats" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. 29 July 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anja_Crevar&oldid=1293230269"