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{{short description|Serbian sport shooter}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Zorana Arunović
| name = Zorana Arunović
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| image = Ukraine at the 2020 Summer Olympics - Zorana Arunović.jpg
| caption = Arunović at the [[2020 Summer Olympics]]
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| nationality = Serbian
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|11|22|df=y}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1986|11|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|SR Serbia]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
| birth_place = [[Belgrade]], [[Socialist Republic of Serbia|Serbia]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]
| height = 1.67 m
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| weight = 75 kg
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| rank = No. 1 (September 2010)
| show-medals = no
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{{MedalGold|[[2014 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2014 Granada]]|10m air pistol team}}
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{{MedalSilver|[[2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2018 Changwon]]|10 m air pistol}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[European Games]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Games]]}}
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{{MedalGold|[[2019 European Games|2019 Minsk]]|[[Shooting at the 2019 European Games – Women's 10 metre air pistol|10 m air pistol]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2019 European Games|2019 Minsk]]|[[Shooting at the 2019 European Games – Women's 10 metre air pistol|10m air pistol]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[Shooting at the 2019 European Games|2019 Minsk]]|Pistol mixed team}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[European Shooting Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold|2010 Meråker|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalGold|[[2011 European 10 m Events Championships|2011 Brescia]]|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalGold|[[2013 European 10 m Events Championships|2013 Odense]]|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalGold|[[2016 European 10 m Shooting Championships|2016 Győr]]|10m air pistol mixed team}}
{{MedalGold|[[2017 10m European Shooting Championships|2017 Maribor]]|10m air pistol}}
{{MedalGold|2017 Maribor|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalGold|2017 Maribor|10m air pistol mixed team}}
{{MedalGold|[[2020 10m European Shooting Championships|2020 Wrocław]]|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalGold|[[2022 European 10 m Events Championships|2022 Hamar]]|10m air pistol team}}
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{{MedalSilver|2016 Győr|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2018 10m European Shooting Championships|2018 Győr]]|10m air pistol}}
{{MedalSilver|2018 Győr|10m air pistol mixed team}}
{{MedalSilver|2020 Wrocław|10m air pistol mixed team}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2021 European Shooting Championships|2021 Osijek]]|10m air pistol mixed team}}
{{MedalSilver|2022 Hamar|10m air pistol}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2012 European 10 m Events Championships|2012 Vierumäki]]|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2013 European Shooting Championships|2013 Osijek]]|25m pistol team}}
{{MedalBronze|2016 Győr|10m air pistol}}
{{MedalBronze|2018 Győr|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2019 10m European Shooting Championships|2019 Osijek]]|10m air pistol mixed team}}
{{MedalBronze|2021 Osijek|10m air pistol team}}
{{MedalBronze|2022 Hamar|10m air pistol mixed team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Mediterranean Games]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Mediterranean Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2009 Mediterranean Games|2009 Pescara]]|10 m air pistol}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Universiade]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Universiade]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2011 Summer Universiade|2011 Shenzhen]]|[[Shooting at the 2011 Summer Universiade|25 m pistol]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2011 Summer Universiade|2011 Shenzhen]]|[[Shooting at the 2011 Summer Universiade|25m pistol]]}}
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'''Zorana Arunović''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Зорана Аруновић}}) (born 22 November 1986) is a Serbian [[Shooting sports|sport shooter]]. She was the world champion of [[10 metre air pistol]] and [[Awards of Olympic Committee of Serbia#Sportswoman of The Year|Serbian Sportswoman of The Year]] for 2010.
'''Zorana Arunović''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Зорана Аруновић}}; born 22 November 1986) is a Serbian [[Shooting sports|sport shooter]]. She won [[10 metre air pistol]] event at the [[2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2010 World Shooting Championships]] and was later named [[Awards of Olympic Committee of Serbia#Sportswoman of The Year|Serbian Sportswoman of The Year]] by the [[Olympic Committee of Serbia]]. She also won individual gold medals in 10 m air pistol event at [[2017 10m European Shooting Championships|2017 European Championships]], and [[2015 European Games|2015]] and [[2019 European Games]].


==Career==
==Career==
She began to practice shooting in 2001, starting at the club [[Policajac]], and then moved to [[SD Crvena Zvezda|Crvena Zvezda]]. For this sport is interested because of the older sister Jelena (Јелена), who is also a successful shooter.
Arunović became interested in shooting because of her older sister Jelena. She began to train in 2001 at the shooting club ''Policajac'', and later moved to [[Streljački klub Crvena zvezda|SK Crvena Zvezda]].


At the European Championship 2004 in [[Győr]], together with other members of the junior team Arunović won a silver medal and in 2005 in [[Estonia]] she won the bronze. 2006 at the European Junior Championships in [[Moscow]] she won individual and team gold medal. Arunović also won bronze in the junior team in [[10 m Air Pistol]] and individual gold in [[25 m Pistol]] at the [[2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships]] in [[Zagreb]]. At the 2009 [[Mediterranean Games]] in [[Pescara]] she won the gold medal.
She won silver team medal in Junior event at the [[European 10 m Events Championships]] in 2004 in Győr, and bronze team medal the following year in Tallinn, respectively. She won individual and team gold in the same event in 2006 in Moscow. Later in the year, Arunović won individual gold in [[25 m pistol]] and team bronze in [[10 m air pistol]] in Junior events at the [[2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2006 World Shooting Championships]] in Zagreb. At the [[2009 Mediterranean Games]] in Pescara, she won gold medal in 10 m air pistol.


Arunović made breakthrough in 2010, when she won individual gold medal in 10 m air pistol, and both individual and team silver in 25 m pistol, alongside her sister [[Jelena Arunović|Jelena]] and legendary sports shooter [[Jasna Šekarić]], at the [[2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2010 World Shooting Championships]] in Munich. The win also made her the first woman athlete to secure quota for Serbia for the London [[2012 Summer Olympics]]. In September 2010, she climbed to first place in the [[International Shooting Sport Federation|ISSF]] world ranking in women's 10 m air pistol.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/sport/pojedinacni/streljastvo.php?yyyy=2010&mm=09&dd=02&nav_id=455983|title = Zorana Arunović prva na svetu |date = 2 September 2010 |work = Tanjug/B92 |language = sr}}</ref> At the end of the year, she was named [[Awards of Olympic Committee of Serbia#Sportswoman of The Year|Serbian Sportswoman of The Year]] by the [[Olympic Committee of Serbia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oks.org.rs/2010/12/proglaseni-najuspesniji-u-2010-oj/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120524182214/http://www.oks.org.rs/2010/12/proglaseni-najuspesniji-u-2010-oj/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 May 2012 |title=Proglašeni najuspešniji u 2010-oj |work=oks.org.rs |access-date=18 December 2010 |language=sr }}</ref> Arunović received Serbia's sport association "May award" in 2011. She won a silver medal in 25 m pistol at the [[2011 Summer Universiade]] in Shenzhen.
Arunović has won many medals, but most importantly has won on the [[2010 ISSF World Shooting Championships]] in [[Munich]]. She won the gold medal in 10 m Air Pistol, individual and team silver medal, along sister Jelena and [[Jasna Šekarić]] in 25 m Pistol. She became the first sportswoman from [[Serbia]] that has provided the advent of the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in [[London]].


Arunović finished 4th in [[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|Women's 25 metre pistol]] and 7th in [[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|Women's 10 metre air pistol]] at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]] in London.
In September 2010, she climbed to first place in the list of the [[International Shooting Sport Federation|ISSF]] in the air pistol event.<ref>http://www.b92.net/sport/pojedinacni/streljastvo.php?yyyy=2010&mm=09&dd=02&nav_id=455983</ref> [[Olympic Committee of Serbia]] has declared for the sportswoman of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oks.org.rs/2010/12/proglaseni-najuspesniji-u-2010-oj/ |archive-url=https://archive.is/20120524182214/http://www.oks.org.rs/2010/12/proglaseni-najuspesniji-u-2010-oj/ |dead-url=yes |archive-date=24 May 2012 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=18 December 2010 }}</ref> Arunović received Serbia's sport association "May award" in 2011. She won the silver medal at the [[2011 Summer Universiade]] in [[Shenzhen]].


Zorana participated at the [[2012 Summer Olympics]]. She finished 4th in the [[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|Women's 25 metre pistol]], and 7th in the [[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|Women's 10 metre air pistol]].
She competed at the [[2016 Summer Olympics]] in Rio in the [[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|Women's 10 metre air pistol]] and [[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|Women's 25 metre pistol]], but failed to progress to the final.


She participated at the [[2016 Summer Olympics]]. She is competing in the [[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|Women's 25 metre pistol]], and finished 11th in the [[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|Women's 10 metre air pistol]].
In 2021, she competed in three events at the [[2020 Summer Olympics]] in Tokyo, including new [[Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Mixed 10 metre air pistol team|Mixed 10 metre air pistol team]] event, where she teamed up with longtime partner [[Damir Mikec]] to finish in 4th place.

Arunović won individual bronze medal in 10 m air pistol at the [[2022 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2022 World Shooting Championships]] in Cairo, to secure first quota for Serbia for the Paris [[2024 Summer Olympics]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.danas.rs/sport/zorana-arunovic-prva-ispunila-kvotu-za-oi-u-tokiju/|title = PRVA KVOTA ZA SRBIJU: Zorana Arunović upucala olimpijsku vizu za Pariz i bronzanu medalju!|date = 15 October 2022|work = Sportal|language = sr}}</ref> just as she did for the previous Olympic Games, when she qualified by winning individual silver medal at the [[2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships|2018 World Shooting Championships]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.danas.rs/sport/zorana-arunovic-prva-ispunila-kvotu-za-oi-u-tokiju/|title = Zorana Arunović prva ispunila kvotu za OI u Tokiju|date = 4 September 2018|work = Danas|language = sr}}</ref>


===Olympic results===
===Olympic results===
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|align=left|[[25 metre pistol]]
|align=left|[[25 metre pistol]]
|style="background: #ccffcc"|[[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|4th]]<br/>787.3
|style="background: #ccffcc"|[[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|4th]]<br/>787.3
|[[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|19th]]<br/>576
|[[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|19th]]<br/>576
|[[Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 25 metre pistol|9th]]<br/>584
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|align=left|[[10 metre air pistol]]
|align=left|[[10 metre air pistol]]
|style="background: #ccffcc"|[[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|7th]]<br/>385+98.5
|style="background: #ccffcc"|[[Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|7th]]<br/>385+98.5
|[[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|11th]]<br/>382+16
|[[Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|11th]]<br/>382
|[[Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 10 metre air pistol|17th]]<br/>573
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|align=left|10 metre air pistol mixed team
| -
| -
|style="background: #ccffcc"|[[Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Mixed 10 metre air pistol team|4th]]
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{{Shooting WR AP60 Women Final}}
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==Personal==
==Personal==
She has studied [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[English language|English]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportal.rs/news.php?id%3D33311 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=31 August 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323093152/http://www.sportal.rs/news.php?id=33311 |archivedate=23 March 2012 }}</ref>
She has studied [[Ukrainian language|Ukrainian]], [[Russian language|Russian]] and [[English language|English]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportal.rs/news.php?id%3D33311 |title=Zorana Arunović kolekcionar trofeja - Ostali sportovi - Sportal.rs |access-date=31 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323093152/http://www.sportal.rs/news.php?id=33311 |archive-date=23 March 2012 |language=sr }}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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| title = [[List of 10 metre air pistol records|Women's 10m air pistol final<br />world record holder]]
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| years = March 11, 2017 –
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Latest revision as of 08:05, 29 April 2024

Zorana Arunović
Arunović at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Personal information
NationalitySerbian
Born (1986-11-22) 22 November 1986 (age 37)
Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
CountrySerbia
SportShooting
RankNo. 1 (September 2010)
EventAir pistol
Medal record
Women's shooting
Representing  Serbia
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Munich 10m air pistol
Gold medal – first place 2014 Granada 10m air pistol team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Munich 25m pistol
Silver medal – second place 2010 Munich 25m pistol team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Changwon 10m air pistol
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Cairo 10m air pistol
European Games
Gold medal – first place 2015 Baku 10m air pistol
Gold medal – first place 2019 Minsk 10m air pistol
Silver medal – second place 2019 Minsk 10m air pistol mixed team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Meråker 10m air pistol team
Gold medal – first place 2011 Brescia 10m air pistol team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Odense 10m air pistol team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Győr 10m air pistol mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Maribor 10m air pistol
Gold medal – first place 2017 Maribor 10m air pistol team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Maribor 10m air pistol mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2020 Wrocław 10m air pistol team
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hamar 10m air pistol team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Odense 10m air pistol mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2016 Győr 10m air pistol team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Győr 10m air pistol
Silver medal – second place 2018 Győr 10m air pistol mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2020 Wrocław 10m air pistol mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2021 Osijek 10m air pistol mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hamar 10m air pistol
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Vierumäki 10m air pistol team
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Osijek 25m pistol team
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Győr 10m air pistol
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Győr 10m air pistol team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Osijek 10m air pistol mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Osijek 10m air pistol team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hamar 10m air pistol mixed team
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2009 Pescara 10m air pistol
Gold medal – first place 2013 Mersin 25m pistol
Gold medal – first place 2022 Oran 10m air pistol mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Mersin 10m air pistol
Silver medal – second place 2018 Tarragona 10m air pistol
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Oran 10m air pistol
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shenzhen 25m pistol

Zorana Arunović (Serbian Cyrillic: Зорана Аруновић; born 22 November 1986) is a Serbian sport shooter. She won 10 metre air pistol event at the 2010 World Shooting Championships and was later named Serbian Sportswoman of The Year by the Olympic Committee of Serbia. She also won individual gold medals in 10 m air pistol event at 2017 European Championships, and 2015 and 2019 European Games.

Career[edit]

Arunović became interested in shooting because of her older sister Jelena. She began to train in 2001 at the shooting club Policajac, and later moved to SK Crvena Zvezda.

She won silver team medal in Junior event at the European 10 m Events Championships in 2004 in Győr, and bronze team medal the following year in Tallinn, respectively. She won individual and team gold in the same event in 2006 in Moscow. Later in the year, Arunović won individual gold in 25 m pistol and team bronze in 10 m air pistol in Junior events at the 2006 World Shooting Championships in Zagreb. At the 2009 Mediterranean Games in Pescara, she won gold medal in 10 m air pistol.

Arunović made breakthrough in 2010, when she won individual gold medal in 10 m air pistol, and both individual and team silver in 25 m pistol, alongside her sister Jelena and legendary sports shooter Jasna Šekarić, at the 2010 World Shooting Championships in Munich. The win also made her the first woman athlete to secure quota for Serbia for the London 2012 Summer Olympics. In September 2010, she climbed to first place in the ISSF world ranking in women's 10 m air pistol.[1] At the end of the year, she was named Serbian Sportswoman of The Year by the Olympic Committee of Serbia.[2] Arunović received Serbia's sport association "May award" in 2011. She won a silver medal in 25 m pistol at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen.

Arunović finished 4th in Women's 25 metre pistol and 7th in Women's 10 metre air pistol at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio in the Women's 10 metre air pistol and Women's 25 metre pistol, but failed to progress to the final.

In 2021, she competed in three events at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, including new Mixed 10 metre air pistol team event, where she teamed up with longtime partner Damir Mikec to finish in 4th place.

Arunović won individual bronze medal in 10 m air pistol at the 2022 World Shooting Championships in Cairo, to secure first quota for Serbia for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics,[3] just as she did for the previous Olympic Games, when she qualified by winning individual silver medal at the 2018 World Shooting Championships.[4]

Olympic results[edit]

Event 2012 2016 2020
25 metre pistol 4th
787.3
19th
576
9th
584
10 metre air pistol 7th
385+98.5
11th
382
17th
573
10 metre air pistol mixed team - - 4th

Records[edit]

Current world records held in 10 m Air Pistol
Women Final 246.9  Zorana Arunović (SRB) March 11, 2017 ECH Maribor (SLO) edit

Personal[edit]

She has studied Ukrainian, Russian and English.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Zorana Arunović prva na svetu". Tanjug/B92 (in Serbian). 2 September 2010.
  2. ^ "Proglašeni najuspešniji u 2010-oj". oks.org.rs (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 24 May 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
  3. ^ "PRVA KVOTA ZA SRBIJU: Zorana Arunović upucala olimpijsku vizu za Pariz i bronzanu medalju!". Sportal (in Serbian). 15 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Zorana Arunović prva ispunila kvotu za OI u Tokiju". Danas (in Serbian). 4 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Zorana Arunović kolekcionar trofeja - Ostali sportovi - Sportal.rs" (in Serbian). Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 31 August 2010.

External links[edit]

Records
Preceded by Women's 10m air pistol final
world record holder

March 11, 2017 –
Succeeded by
Incumbent