AMAZING MINA: This girl from Serbia has 200 medals! (PHOTO) (VIDEO)

In order to be good in any sport, you must enjoy it above all. This requirement is the foundation, so that later down the road you can devote more time to what makes you healthy, stronger, but in the end - exceptional.

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Mina Gajic, a 13 year old girl from Sabac knows this best. She is an excellent pupil at the elementary school "Nikolaj Velimirovic" and has been running since the age of 8. Previously, she tried doing gymnastics.

- They were all kind of quiet in gymnastics, and I was more aggressive. After a competition, my mom suggested I try athletics, which was great, because I love running - Mina told us after winning the Cup in Belgrade in the 800 meters, leaving behind her three year older opponent.

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By the way, this is the first time she competed in this discipline.

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- She just entered the older pioneers and her discipline is 600 meters. The difference in preparation is huge, and her coach wanted to see how she would run it - adds Ana, Mina's mother.

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For the five years that she was been engaged in athletics, Mina has won 200 medals in various competitions in the country.

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- She was restless. First, she tried gymnastics, but it didn't call out to her, and then we found an athletic school, so she could spend her energy somewhere - recalls Ana.

At her first national competition for young pioneers, she ran alongside older girls, and was second, enabling her to participate in an athletic camp where she was the youngest. Last year she was second in the 600 meters for the older pioneers, and third in the 1000 meters.

Her personal record at 600 meters is 1.37, and on one occasion she also tried the middle stripes discipline, 1,500 meters, where she had the best time 4.52,55.

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Foto: Telegraf

One should not forget that in 2012, 2013 and 2014 she was the quadruple winner of the Radio Television Serbia (RTS) Cross competition. The unofficial European Championship held in Italy last year was the only international competition that she attended- and won fourth place.

The results show that her talent is unquestionable. Mina has the chance to train with ten-time champion, Dejan Bogicevic.

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- He is a very good man, who does not put pressure on Mina. Kids her age train twice a day every day of the week. She, on the other hand, trains six days a week, once a day. She runs by the Sabac ravines - says mother Ana, adding that there are no adequate conditions for athletics training in Sabac.

Foto: MPS

Foto: Telegraf

Foto: Telegraf

Foto: Telegraf

Foto: Telegraf

When we asked her how she makes time to train with school, Mina smiled with a sigh.

- It's really hard to combine it all. I come home from school, sleep, skim through some notes and then go to practice.

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Otherwise, she trains during the winter and summer, at -20 and +40 degrees Celsius and has no special diet in place. Before the race, she makes sure that no one disturbs her concentration, and while she runs, she makes sure not to look back and see how far along her competitors are.

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- Before the race, I talk to my coach almost like with a psychologist and he gives me advice. I always get nervous before a race. After having run hundred of meters I know that if I were to turn around, I would lose time. I rely on hearing my opponents breathe in order to know how far away they are from me - explains this talented teenager.

Foto: Telegraf

Foto: Telegraf

Foto: Telegraf

Mina's results in the Athletic Club Tempo have not gone unnoticed - at the end of 2014, she received an invitation to become a member of Red Star. Nevertheless she will continue to train in Sabac.

- I was excited to change clubs for a club that is not in my hometown. I'm used to regularly congratulating my rivals after every competition. It would be foolish to run with someone, and not be on good terms - concluded Mina Gajic, who is proof that athletics still lives in our country.

Have a look at how Mina triumphed at the Belgrade Athletic Cup.

(Telegraf.co.uk)