Hana Basic (born 22 January 1996) is an Australian sprinter who competes in the 100 metres.[2] Basic was selected to represent Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 100 m event.[3]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Australian |
| Born | 22 January 1996 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Australia |
| Sport | Track and field |
| Event | Sprint |
| Club | Collingwood Harriers Athletics Club |
| Coached by | John Nicolosi |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | 100 m: 11.16 (2021) |
She studied for a Bachelor of Health and Physical Education at Deakin University.[4]
Early years edit
Basic was born in Melbourne, Australia to father Armin from Banja Luka who ran a café and mother Zana, a lawyer from Mostar. The Basic family fled to Australia just three years before she was born at the start of the Bosnian War.[5] She also has an older sister named Mia. Bosnian was her first language, as she only learned English in primary school.[6]
Basic started playing sport as a gymnast when she was in pre-school. When she was 9 years old her primary school Physical Education teacher saw her athletics potential and encouraged her to go to Nunawading Little Athletics. Basic went to her first nationals in the Under-10s for high jump and long jump. By the age of 14, she was already running under 12 seconds for the 100m and winning national sprint titles. Basic decided to make running her priority.[7]
Athletics career edit
Basic earned a scholarship to Carey Grammar School and went to the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Eugene, Oregon and ran a personal best of 11.64 seconds for the 100 metres that year. She changed her diet and training.[8][9]
On 17 April 2021 she won the Australian National Championship 100 metres in a time of 11.23 seconds. Just prior to that at the Queensland Classic she had clocked a new personal best of 11.18 to become the fourth fastest woman in Australian history. She then improved her personal best to 11.16 in July 2021 at Meeting de la Gruyere in Bulle, Switzerland.[10]
She represented Australia in the 100 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she finished fifth in her heat running 11.32 seconds,[11][12] so didn't advance to the semi-finals.[13][14]
References edit
- ^ "Hana Basic". olympics.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
- ^ "Hana BASIC | Profile". worldathletics.org. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ "AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TEAM". Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
- ^ "Get ready to cheer on Team Deakin at the 2020 Tokyo Games!". Deakin Life. Deakin University. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
- ^ Gleeson, Michael (16 April 2021). "Nothing Basic about rising sprint star Hana's road to the top". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ Gleeson, Michael (16 April 2021). "Nothing Basic about rising sprint star Hana's road to the top". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ "Hana Basic". Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
- ^ Gleeson, Michael (16 April 2021). "Nothing Basic about rising sprint star Hana's road to the top". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ Pearce, Linda (19 June 2021). "Sprint champion Hana Basic". The Saturday Paper. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ "Hana Basic - 'Bull by the Horns'". athletics.com.au. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
- ^ Athletics - Round 1 - Heat 7 Results Archived 30 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Official Tokyo 2020 Results, Olympics.com
- ^ Gleeson, Michael (30 July 2021). "Could Flo-Jo's 100m world record from 1988 fall in Tokyo?". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Why 'disappointed' Aussie Olympian can't wait for two weeks in hotel quarantine despite being eliminated". 7 News. 30 July 2021. Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Athletics - BASIC Hana". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
