Montenegrin athlete Marija Vuković won the gold medal in the high jump at the Balkan Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
Vuković won the gold medal with a jump of 180 centimeters. The same height, but with multiple attempts, was cleared by Tatjana Gusin from Greece, while Natalia Kostova from Bulgaria took bronze with a jump of 177 centimeters.
The second representative of Montenegro at the championship, Ognjen Marsenić, took 60th place in the 18-meter event with a time of 7,13 seconds.
Marija Vuković successfully returned to the athletics scene this season after a several-month break due to injury.
At the season opener, she jumped 190 centimeters and won second place at the indoor meeting in Belgrade.
The leader of the Montenegrin national team was coach Osman Erović, and Marija Vuković was accompanied by her coach Vasilikos Dimitros.
The Balkan Championships brought together more than 250 athletes from 21 member states of the Balkan Athletics Federation.
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