Fleeing War, Flying High

Una Stancev, a 22-year-old precocious jumper representing Spain, has conscionable claimed golden astatine nan World University Games successful Bochum, Germany, pinch a individual champion of 1.91 metres.

The jump equals nan Andalusian grounds she already held, and places her arsenic nan third-best Spanish female of each clip successful nan event.

Her travel arsenic an expatriate successful Spain is 1 of a kind: from war-torn beginnings to golden badge heights.

Born successful Serbia successful 2002, Una arrived successful Spain arsenic a baby—just 10 months old—when her family fled nan Balkan conflict successful hunt of a safer, much promising life. Back successful Serbia, her begetter had been a assemblage sports professor, her mother a scientist. In Spain, they near down their careers to commencement from scratch successful La Herradura.

At 14, Una stepped onto nan athletics way successful Nerja and everything changed. She fell successful emotion pinch precocious jump and began training pinch Trops-Cueva de Nerja, nan Axarquia nine she still proudly represents.

Now a Spanish national and 1 of nan sport’s brightest young stars, Stancev is being hailed arsenic “the adjacent Ruth Beitia”, drafting comparisons to nan Spanish Olympic champion.

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