Career
Anita Horvat competed in the women's 400 metres at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships. [1]
She also represented Slovenia in the event at the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021. [1]
In the 2022 season, Horvat gradually shifted to the 800 metres. In March, she won the 400 m at the Balkan Indoor Championships held in Istanbul. She finished second over the 800 m at the outdoor Balkan Championships in Craiova, Romania in June that year. The following month, she placed second in the 400 m at the Mediterranean Games staged in Oran, Algeria. [1] At the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene the same July, Horvat for the first time broke the two-minute barrier in the 800 m (1:59.60) in her semifinal and eventually finished seventh in 1:59.83 in the first global individual final of her career. [2] She lowered her personal best to 1:58.96 in August and competed in the event at the European Championships in Munich, where she fell and placed last in her heat. [1]
In January 2023, the 26-year-old won her new specialist event at the Init Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe in Germany, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, beating 2022 world indoor silver medallist Freweyni Hailu. [3] She continued her good form in March, claiming the silver medal in the 800 m at the European Indoor Championships held in Istanbul, her first major individual medal and the biggest success up to that point. [4] [5]
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