Former Balkan athletics champion Dušanka Topic Šaponja: I was faster than 'cyra'

Radiotelevizija Herceg-Bosne

Factuality

Ownership

Former Balkan athletics champion Dušanka Topic Šaponja: I was faster than 'cyra'

Seventy-eight-year-old Dušanka Topić Šaponja from Prijedor is a former Balkan athletics champion. Back in 1962, she won the Balkans in Sofia, and then ran the 800-meter track in a minute and 59 seconds. It was faster than the “cyra “that the students used to transport themselves to school at that time.- Everyone went by train, I ran by the railway and always got there before them. I was much faster than the then 'cyra' - says this woman from Pri…