Olivera Jevtić

Olivera Jevtić

Personal information
Nickname(s)	Olja
Nationality	Serbian
Born	(1977-07-24) 24 July 1977 (age 39) Titovo Užice, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Residence	Užice
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb; 8 st 3 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	5000 m, 10,000 m, Half marathon, Marathon, Cross country running
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	5000 meters: 15:11.25 10,000 meters: 31:29.65 Marathon: 2:25:23
Medal record Representing  Yugoslavia /  Serbia and Montenegro /  Serbia European Championships 2006 Gothenburg Marathon European Cross Country Championships 1997 Oeiras Senior race 1998 Ferrara Senior race 1999 Velenje Senior race 2000 Malmö Senior race 2006 San Giorgio su Legnano Senior race Mediterranean Games 2001 Tunis 10,000 m 2009 Pescara 10,000 m 1997 Bari 10,000 m 2001 Tunis 5.000 m 2005 Almería Half marathon 2005 Almería 10.000 m European U23 Championships 1997 Turku 10,000 m 1999 Gothenburg 10,000 m 1999 Gothenburg 5.000 m World Junior Championships 1996 Sydney 5000 m European Junior Championships 1995 Nyiregyhaza 3000 m 1995 Nyiregyhaza 5.000 m

Olivera Jevtić (Serbian Cyrillic: Оливера Јевтић, born July 24, 1977) is a Serbian long-distance runner. She has represented her country five times at the Olympics in 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

Jevtić was born in Titovo Užice, Yugoslavia, otherwise known presently as Užice, Serbia. Her parents are father Milorad and mother Draginja. She is based in her native city, coached by Slavoljub "Slavko" Kuzmanović, and she competes for the running club AK Mladost Užice. Jevtić holds the Serbian marathon record of 2:25:23, which she established at the Rotterdam Marathon in 2003. She won the silver medal in the marathon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden. In December 2007, coach Kuzmanović and Jevtić went on an altitude training trip to Eldoret, Kenya, when violent conflict erupted from the 2007 Kenyan election crisis. Although they wanted to continue working out in spite of the violence, her training partner, Stanley Kipruto, insisted that their lives were in danger and led them out of Eldoret so that they could leave the country from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. After Jevtić and Kuzmanović were picked up by a Serbian diplomat-evacuation flight, Kipruto was caught by rebels, tortured, and lost four fingers. Subsequent to the violence in Kenya, Kipruto moved in to live with Jevtić and Kuzmanović in Užice and joined their running team Mladost.

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