Background
She represents Ski Illinois, and is coached by her father Petar Vukićević, who participated for Yugoslavia in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
She represents Ski Illinois, and is coached by her father Petar Vukićević, who participated for Yugoslavia in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Her gold medal in the 2003 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Paris was her first international medal. She was forced to take a prolonged break during the summer of 2005 due to a knee-injury and the following surgery. At the 2006 World Junior Championships she took the silver medal with the time 13.34 seconds, a national junior record.
She made her senior global debut at the 2007 World Championships and ran a personal best of 13.07 seconds in the heats.
On the 60 meter hurdles she has 8.03 seconds set on an international meeting in Düsseldorf 2008. She just missed out on the podium with a fourth-place finish at the 2009 European Indoor Championships.
She competed at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics but she could not reach heights she had in Hengelo, and was knocked out in the semifinals after running 13.00 seconds. She started the 2010 season by setting a new best in the 60 metres hurdles with a run of 7.94 seconds – a Norwegian record.
She narrowly missed a place in the final at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Her 2011 opened just as it had the previous year, with a national record over 60 m hurdles (792 seconds). She set her sights on a medal at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships, hoping to go beyond her fourth place at the 2009 event. She improved her mark further to 7.90 seconds at the BW Bank Meeting in February.
In March 2011 Vukicevic and Andreas Thorkildsen announced in Norwegian media that they no longer were a couple.
In November 2012 it was reported that she had been training with the controversial doctor Srdjan Djordjevic. All information taken from IAAF profile.