Nika Glojnarič
Slovenian athlete (born 2000)
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Nika Glojnarič (born 29 November 2000) is a Slovenian sprint hurdler. She is a multiple-time national champion, and competed at the 2023 and 2025 World Championships over 100 metres hurdles and the 2024 and 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships over 60 metres hurdles.[1]
Biography
From Brežice, she is a member of AK Brežice.[2][3] In February 2018, as a 17 year-old, she narrowly missed automatic qualification for the 2018 World Indoor Championships by 17 hundredths-of-a second.[4]
Glojnarič competed for Slovenia in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August 2023.[5]
Glojnarič competed for Slovenia in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland in March 2024.[6] She was a semi-finalist in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy in June 2024.[7][8]
Glojnarič competed for Slovenia in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in March 2025.[9][2] Later that month, she reached the semifinals of the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.[10][11]
Glojnarič competed for Slovenia at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships in Maribor, Slovenia in June 2025.[12] In August 2025, Glojnarič won the 100 metres title at the Slovenian Athletics Championship for the fourth consecutive year.[13] Glojnarič competed for Slovenia at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2025, placing fifth in her heat in 13.13 seconds without advancing to the semi-finals.[14][2]
In January 2026, she won the women’s 60m hurdles in a lifetime best of 8.03 seconds at the Orlen Cup Lodz in Poland, before lowering again to 7.98 seconds the following month in Ostrava.[15][16] The following month, she won the 2026 Slovenian Indoor Athletics Championships in 8.14 seconds.[17] In March 2026, she ran in the 60 metres hurdles at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, reaching the semi-finals.[18] On 4 June 2026, at the Liese Prokop Memorial in St. Pölten, she won the 100 metres hurdles in a personal best 12.76 seconds.[19]