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Place of Birth: Split, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia
About Vanja Perišić
- Vanja Perišic (born July 5, 1985 in Split) is a Croatian middle distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres.
- Perisic represented Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women's 800 metres.
- She ran in the third heat of the event, against six other athletes, including Kenya's Pamela Jelimo, who eventually won the gold medal in the final.
- She finished the race in sixth place by seventy-one hundredths of a second (0.71) behind Mauritius' Annabelle Lascar, with a time of 2:06.82.
- Perišic, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed thirty-fifth overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.On April 29, 2009, Perišic was among the Olympic non-medal winners, who tested positive for Cera, an advanced version of endurance-enhancing hormone EPO.
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