Career
Perisic represented Croatia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed for the women"s 800 metres. She finished the race in sixth place by seventy-one hundredths of a second (071) behind Mauritius" Annabelle Lascar, with a time of 2:06.82. Perišić, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed thirty-fifth overall, and was ranked farther below three mandatory slots for the next round.
On April 29, 2009, Perišić was among the Olympic non-medal winners, who tested positive for Cera, an advanced version of endurance-enhancing hormone EPO.