Sanela Redžić

Sanela Redžić is a Bosnian disabled athlete who competes for her nation. She has won bronze medals at the IPC Athletics European and World Championships, and placed fourth in her event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Career Sanela Redžić grew up in Tešanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during the Bosnian War. Following the war, she started taking part in competitive shooting, become the local champion in her first year. Redžić started taking part in discus, javelin throw and shot put for recreation in 2005, only taking part competitively from 2010 onwards. She trains at Athletic Disability Club Chelik, although without full funding and initially without a proper sport prosthesis. She competes in the F42 disability class.

Redžić met the required standard to compete at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, England. A few months prior to the Games, she took part in the IPC Athletics European Championships in Stadskanaal, Netherlands in the F40/42/44 shot put. She won the gold medal behind Poland's Darija Kabeš and Germany's Anet Jelita. Redžić was the only individual athlete in the Bosnia and Herzegovina team for the 2012 Summer Paralympics, alongside their volleyball team.

She was one of two Bosnian athletes to travel to the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France. Redžić competed in the women's shot put, where she won the bronze medal in the F42/44 disability class. Redžić had surgery on her leg in 2014, following a bone growth which was causing difficulties for her to compete.