Dragutin Topić
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia[1] | 12 March 1971|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | AK Partizan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best(s) | Outdoor: 2.38 m Indoor: 2.35 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Dragutin Topić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Топић, born 12 March 1971 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian former high jumper.
Biography
Topić is a world junior record holder with 2.37 m, which he set while winning the 1990 World Junior Championships, three weeks before his win at the senior European Championships. In the same year, Topić received the Golden Badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia. Topić set five national records and claimed four Yugoslav national championships in the men's high jump event. He is a former member of AK Crvena zvezda, where he spent the majority of his career.
Topić competed until 2012, and had one of the longest careers in high-level high jump, since he holds not only world junior record with 2.37 m, but also world masters record for the ages over 35 (2.31 m, set in 2009), and over 40 years of age (2.28 m, set in 2012).
He competed at eight World Championships,[2] and at six Olympic Games (between 1992 and 2012),[3] which is an Olympic record for high jump, and he also shared the record for most appearances at the Olympics by a male track and field athlete with distance runner João N'Tyamba and race walker Jesús Ángel García,[4] who later broke the record.
Personal bests
Event | Performance | Date | Location |
---|---|---|---|
High jump (outdoor) | 2.38 m | 1 August 1993 | Belgrade |
High jump (indoor) | 2.35 m | 10 March 1996 | Stockholm |
International competitions
- (q) Indicates overall position in the qualifying round.
- At the 2012 Olympic Games, Topić had three failures at the opening height of 2.16 m in the qualifying round.
Doping
On 2 February 2001, after a meeting in Wuppertal, Germany, he was tested and his urine sample showed the presence of norandrosterone in concentrations slightly higher than allowed. He was tested positive to norandrosterone and suspended for two years.[5][6]
Personal life
His wife is Serbian former track and field athlete and national record holder in triple jump, Biljana Topić (née Mitrović), and he served as her coach while he was still an active competitor. Their daughter, Angelina Topić, won the high jump event at the 2022 European U18 Championships and also holds the national record in high jump, as well as equal world U18 best.[7]
See also
- Serbian records in athletics
- List of junior world records in athletics
- List of world records in masters athletics
- List of doping cases in athletics
References
- ^ a b c d Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Dragutin Topić Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ^ Most appearances Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine; p25
- ^ Olympic results
- ^ "London 2012 Olympics: Topic's record appearance at Olympics is the result of a bet". athleticsweekly.com. 26 July 2012. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012.
- ^ "Serbian Government >> News >> Sports >> Yugoslavian High Jumper Fails Test".
- ^ Druga strana medalje - Both sides clean By Marija Midžović p.157
- ^ "Topic equals world U18 high jump best with 1.96m at Serbian Championships". European Athletics. 27 June 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
External links
- Dragutin Topić at World Athletics
- Dragutin Topić at European Athletics
- Dragutin Topić at Olympedia
- Dragutin Topić at Olympics.com
- Dragutin Topić at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian) (archive)
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Belgrade
- Serbian male high jumpers
- Serbia and Montenegro sportsmen
- Yugoslav male high jumpers
- Serbia and Montenegro athletes
- Olympic athletes as Independent Olympic Participants
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Yugoslavia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Serbia and Montenegro
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Serbia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Yugoslavia
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Serbia and Montenegro
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Serbia
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- World record holders in masters athletics
- Serbian masters athletes
- Doping cases in athletics
- Serbian sportspeople in doping cases
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Serbia
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
- Universiade gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
- Medalists at the 1995 Summer Universiade