Aníta Hinriksdóttir


Aníta Hinriksdóttir is an Icelandic middle-distance track athlete who competes in the 800 meter distance. She set the Iceland national record in the 800 m of 2:00.49, and came 4th in the women's 800m at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics.
Aníta was born in Reykjavík. On 14 July 2013 she won the 800 metres 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Donetsk, Ukraine. On 20 July 2013, Aníta won the 800 metres at the 2013 European Junior Championships in Athletics. These achievements make her the first person to win gold medals at both the World Youth championships in athletics and the European Junior Championships in athletics. She then represented Iceland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Women's 800 m event. She set another Icelandic national record in the 800 metres with a time of 2:00.14 but just failed to qualify to the semifinals.

International competitions

1Did not finish in the final
2Disqualified in the semifinals

Personal Bests

Outdoor
EventTimeVenueDate
400 m54.29Luxembourg, 29 May 2013
800 m2:00.05 Bislett Games, Oslo, 15 June 2017
1000 m2:36.63 Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, Hengelo, 24 May 2015
1500 m4:06.43 Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, Hengelo, 11 June 2017
Mile4:29.20 Fanny Blankers-Koen Games, Hengelo, 3 June 2018
2000 m steeplechase6:34.80 Nordic Junior Championships, Växjö, 19 August 2012

Indoor
EventTimeVenueDate
400 m54.21Reykjavik, 6 February 2016
600 m1:27.65 Íslandsmet, Reykjavik, 19 December 2014
800 m2:01.18 Reykjavik International Games, Reykjavík, 4 February 2017
1000 m2:43.22 Reykjavik, 15 December 2012
1500 m4:09.54 PSD Bank Meeting, Reykjavik, 6 February 2018
4 × 200 m relay1:38.54 9th Bikarkeppni, Hafnarfjörður, 28 February 2015
4 × 400 m relay3:49.12 Icelandic Championships, Reykjavik, 10 February 2013

Personal life

Aníta is the niece of long-distance runner Martha Ernstdóttir who competed in the women's marathon at the 2000 Summer Olympics.