Amela Terzić

Amela Terzić

Amela Terzić in 2015
Personal information
Nationality	Serbian
Born	(1993-01-02) 2 January 1993 (age 24) Priboj, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Residence	Novi Pazar
Sport
Sport	Track
Event(s)	1500 metres, 3000 metres, Cross country running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	800 metres: 1:59.90 1500 metres: 4:04.77 Mile: 4:33.46
Medal record Representing  Serbia European U23 Championships 2013 Tampere 1500 m 2015 Tallinn 1500 m European Cross Country Championships 2012 Szentendre Junior race 2010 Albufeira Junior race 2013 Belgrade U23 race 2011 Velenje Junior race 2015 Hyères U23 race World Junior Championships 2012 Barcelona 1500 m European Junior Championships 2011 Tallinn 1500 m 2011 Tallinn 3000 m World Youth Championships 2009 Tampere 3000 m 2009 Brixen 1500 m European Youth Olympic Festival 2009 Tampere 1500 m
Updated on July 14, 2015.

Amela Terzić (Serbian Cyrillic: Амела Терзић, born 2 January 1993 in Priboj, FR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian middle-distance runner. She won two gold medals at 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships in Tallinn and was the junior champion at the 2012 European Cross Country Championships. She has also been a medallist in the 1500 metres at the World Junior and World Youth Championships and a gold medalist at the 2013 European U23 Championship.

Terzić lives in Barakovac Novi Pazar and is coached by Rifat Zilkić. She was awarded a golden badge for the best young athlete of Serbia in 2011 and 2012.

Her first international appearances came in 2008 at the age of fifteen. That year she was second in the 800 m and third in the 1500 m at the Balkan Junior Athletics Championships. She established herself as a youth and junior athlete the following year: she was the Balkan junior champion in cross country and both middle-distance events, took bronze in the 1500 m at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Athletics, and was the champion in the 3000 metres at the European Youth Olympic Festival (where she also took 1500 m bronze). Further to this, she was a finalist in the 1500 m and 3000 m at the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships and came twelfth in the junior section of the 2009 European Cross Country Championships.