Aníta Hinriksdóttir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Aníta Hinriksdóttir

Icelandic middle distance runner

Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1996

Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland

Profession: athletics competitor, middle-distance runner

Nationality: Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Aníta Hinriksdóttir (born 13 January 1996) is an Icelandic middle-distance track athlete who competes in the 800 meter distance.
She set the Iceland national record in the 800 m of 2:00.49, and came 4th in the women's 800m at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
Aníta was born in Reykjavík.
On 14 July 2013 she won the 800 metres 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Donetsk, Ukraine.
On 20 July 2013, Aníta won the 800 metres at the 2013 European Junior Championships in Athletics.
These achievements make her the first person to win gold medals at both the World Youth championships in athletics and the European Junior Championships in athletics.
She then represented Iceland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Women's 800 m event.
She set another Icelandic national record in the 800 metres with a time of 2:00.14 but just failed to qualify to the semifinals.