Alanah Yukich
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 27 January 1998 |
| Died | 1.78 m[1] |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event(s) | Sprint, Hurdles |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best(s) | 400m: 52.53 (Waco, 2024) 400m hurdles: 55.11 (Paris, 2024) |
Alanah Yukich (born 27 January 1998) is an Australian athlete who competes in the 400 metres hurdles.[2]
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.[3][4]
Career
[edit]She competed at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in the 400m hurdles and 4x400m relay.[5]
She won the 400m hurdles at the 2022 Conference USA outdoor track meet.[6]
In April 2024, she was selected as part of the Australian team for the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, Bahamas.[7]
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.[3] She competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024, where she reached the semi finals.[8][9]
Personal life
[edit]She has also worked as a model.[10] She is of Croatian descent.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Yukich Alanah". olympics.com. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "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 (July 8, 2024). "Australia take second largest ever team to Paris Olympics". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Strong is beautiful as illustrated by Rock Star – Alanah Yukich". Rocktape. 10 July 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ Alana Yukich Instagram.com
External links
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- Living people
- UTSA Roadrunners women's track and field athletes
- Athletes from Perth, Western Australia
- Australian people of Croatian descent
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- Olympic athletes for Australia
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