Dragutin Topić

Dragutin Topić

Personal information
Nationality	Serbian
Born	(1971-03-12) 12 March 1971 (age 50)[1] Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Weight	77.0 kg (169.8 lb; 12.13 st)
Sport
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	High jump
Club	JSD Partizan
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Outdoor: 2.38 m Indoor: 2.35 m
hide Medal record Representing / Yugoslavia and  Serbia World Indoor Championships 1997 Paris High jump European Championships 1990 Split High jump European Indoor Championships 1996 Stockholm High jump 1992 Genoa High jump 2000 Ghent High jump Mediterranean Games 2009 Pescara High jump World Junior Championships 1990 Plovdiv High jump Universiade 1995 Fukuoka High jump

Dragutin Topić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Топић, born 12 March 1971 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian high jumper.

Biography[]

He is a World junior record holder with 2.37 when he won World Junior Championships 1990, three weeks before his win at European Championships. In the same year Topić received the Golden Badge award for best athlete of Yugoslavia. Topic has set five national records, and claimed four national titles for Yugoslavia in the men's high jump event. He was a member of AK Crvena zvezda where he spent almost entire carrier.

Topić still competes as of 2012, and has one of the longest careers in high-level high jump, since he holds not only World junior record with 2.37, but also World masters record for the ages over 35 (2.31, set in 2009), and over 40 years of age (2.28, set in 2012).

He has competed at six Olympic Games between 1992 and 2012,^[2] as well as at seven World Championships.^[3]

Personal bests[]

International competitions[]

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  SFR Yugoslavia
1989	European Junior Championships	Varaždin, Yugoslavia	4th	2.20 m
1990	World Junior Championships	Plovdiv, Bulgaria	1st	2.37 m
	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	1st	2.34 m
1991	World Championships	Tokyo, Japan	9th	2.28 m
1992	European Indoor Championships	Genoa, Italy	3rd	2.29 m
Representing Independent Olympic Participants
1992	Olympic Games	Barcelona, Spain	8th	2.28 m
Representing  FR Yugoslavia
1993	World Championships	Stuttgart, Germany	26th (q)	2.20 m
1994	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	5th	2.31 m
1995	Universiade	Fukuoka, Japan	1st	2.29 m
	World Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	8th	2.25 m
1996	European Indoor Championships	Stockholm, Sweden	1st	2.35 m
	Olympic Games	Atlanta, United States	4th	2.32 m
1997	World Indoor Championships	Paris, France	3rd	2.32 m
	World Championships	Athens, Greece	22nd (q)	2.23 m
1999	World Championships	Seville, Spain	4th	2.32 m
2000	European Indoor Championships	Ghent, Belgium	3rd	2.34 m
	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	21st (q)	2.20 m
Representing  Serbia and Montenegro
2004	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	10th	2.29 m
2005	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	9th	2.25 m
Representing  Serbia
2007	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	31st (q)	2.19 m
2008	World Indoor Championships	Valencia, Spain	6th	2.27 m
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	25th (q)	2.25 m
2012	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	—	NM

Notes:

• (q) Indicates overall position in the qualifying round.
• At the 2012 Olympic Games, Topic had three failures at the opening height of 2.16 m in the qualifying round.

Doping[]

On 2 February 2001, after a meeting in Wuppertal, Germany, he was tested and his urine sample showed the presence of norandrosterone in concentrations slightly higher than allowed. He was tested positive to norandrosterone and suspended for two years.^[4][5]

Personal life[]

His wife is Serbian triple jumper Biljana Topić. He is also her personal trainer.

See also[]

• Serbian records in athletics
• List of junior world records in athletics
• List of world records in masters athletics
• List of doping cases in athletics

References[]

External links[]

• Dragutin Topić at World Athletics
• Dragutin Topić at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Dragutin Topić at the International Olympic Committee