Olympic history of Serbia

This article only covers the Olympic history of Serbia. For Yugoslavia see: Olympic history of Yugoslavia .

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The beginnings of the Olympic movement in Serbia date back to before the First World War . After the idea of ​​the Olympic Games was established, the Kingdom of Serbia began to think about the country's participation. On February 10, 1910, the Serbian Olympic Club was founded in Belgrade , which promoted the activities of sending a team to the Summer Olympic Games . Finally, in the summer of 1912, a five-man Serbian delegation, including two athletes and three officials, traveled to Stockholm to represent their country at the Olympic competitions for the first time. On the sidelines of the Games, the Serbian head of the delegation, General Svetomir Đukić , who was also one of the co-founders of the Serbian Olympic Club, was elected to the International Olympic Committee , of which he was a member until his death in 1949.

After the founding of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , later Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav Olympic Committee (JOK) was founded in Zagreb on December 14, 1919 , in which the Serbian Olympic Club and the Croatian Sports Association were incorporated. The Serbian athletes started from then on in the team of the united Yugoslavia.

The JOK continued to exist after the breakup of Yugoslavia and the departure of Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia from the Yugoslav union of states in 1991. The athletes from the remaining states of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro , were initially denied participation in the Olympic Games. The sanctions imposed by the United Nations as a result of the war in Croatia also included the exclusion of Yugoslav athletes from international competitions. However, the IOC allowed some athletes from Yugoslavia to compete as independent participants at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona . It was not until the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta that Yugoslavia returned to the circle of the Olympic family.

On April 3, 2003, the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Montenegro was founded as the legal successor to the JOK. After the dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro , it was renamed the Olympic Committee of Serbia on June 8, 2006 .

See also : List of Olympic medalists from Yugoslavia

See also : List of Olympic medalists from Serbia and Montenegro

Medals balance

So far, the Serbian Olympic team has achieved fifteen Olympic medals in sports competitions. These are divided into three gold, six silver and six bronze medals. The Serbian team, which started in 1912, was the only team to not win any medals at summer games, and the winter team that started in 2010 did not achieve any medal ranks either.

Olympic Summer Games

year	team				total
1912	SRB	-	-	-	-
2008	SRB	-	1	2	3
2012	SRB	1	1	2	4th
2016	SRB	2	4th	2	8th
	total	3	6th	6th	15th

Serbia has so far participated in the Summer Olympics four times with an independent team . The first participation took place in Stockholm in 1912 , the last one in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro .

winter Olympics

year	team				total
2010	SRB	-	-	-	-
2014	SRB	-	-	-	-
2018	SRB	-	-	-	-
	total	-	-	-	-

An independent Serbian team has participated in the Winter Olympics three times since 2010 .

Medalist

The following overview lists all athletes who have won medals for the Olympic teams of Serbia.

Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A.

• Milan Aleksić - water polo (0-0-1)

  London 2012 : bronze, men

• Tijana Bogdanović - Taekwondo (0-1-0)

  Rio de Janeiro 2016 : Silver, class - 49 kg, women

C.

• Milorad Čavić - swimming, 100 m butterfly (0-1-0)

  Beijing 2008 : silver, men

• Aleksandar Ćirić - water polo (0-0-1)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

D.

• Novak Đoković - tennis (0-0-1)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

F.

• Filip Filipović - Water Polo (0-0-2)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

  London 2012 : bronze, men

G

• Živko Gočić - water polo (0-0-2)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

  London 2012 : bronze, men

M.

• Ivana Maksimović - Shooting (0-1-0)

  London 2012 : Silver, sport rifle, three position competition women

• Dušan Mandić - water polo (0-0-1)

  London 2012 : bronze, men

• Milica Mandić - Taekwondo (1-0-0)

  London 2012 : Gold, women over 67 kg class

• Stefan Mitrović - water polo (0-0-1)

  London 2012 : bronze, men

N

• Slobodan Nikić - water polo (0-0-1)

  London 2012 : bronze, men

P

• Branko Peković - water polo (0–0–1)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

• Duško Pijetlović - water polo (0-0-2)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

  London 2012 : bronze, men

• Gojko Pijetlović - water polo (0-0-1)

  London 2012 : bronze, men

• Andrija Prlainović - water polo (0-0-2)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

  London 2012 : bronze, men

R.

• Nikola Radjen - water polo (0-0-2)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

  London 2012 : bronze, men

S.

• Aleksandar Sapić - water polo (0-0-1)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

• Aleksa Šaponjić - water polo (0-0-1)

  London 2012 : bronze, men

• Dejan Savić - water polo (0-0-1)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

• Denis Šefik - water polo (0-0-1)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

• Slobodan Soro - Water Polo (0-0-2)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

  London 2012 : bronze, men

• Ivana Španović - Athletics (0-0-1)

  Rio de Janeiro 2016 : bronze, long jump, women

• Before Štefanek - Wrestling (1-0-0)

  Rio de Janeiro 2016 : Gold, Greco-Roman class - 66 kg, men

T

• Marko Tomićević - Canoe (0-1-0)

  Rio de Janeiro 2016 : silver, two-person kayak 1000 m, men

U

• Vanja Udovičić - water polo (0-0-2)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

  London 2012 : bronze, men

V

• Vladimir Vujašinović - water polo (0-0-1)

  Beijing 2008 : bronze, men

Z

• Andrija Zlatić - Shooting (0-0-1)

  London 2012 : bronze, men's air pistol

• Milenko Zorić - Canoe (0-1-0)

  Rio de Janeiro 2016 : silver, two-person kayak 1000 m, men

Web link

• Serbia in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Serbia on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} All the Medallists since 1896 (Serbia) ( English ) International Olympic Committee . Retrieved February 15, 2010.