Nenad Lalović

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Nenad Lalović at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games

Nenad Lalović (* 1958 in Belgrade ) is a Serbian entrepreneur and sports official. He has been President of the World Wrestling Association since 2013, which was renamed United World Wrestling in 2014 .

Lalović's father, Milos Lalović , worked as Yugoslavia's ambassador to Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Belgium and Switzerland. Nenad Lalović graduated from high school in Geneva . He first studied in Belgrade and received his degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Novi Sad . He set up a travel agency based in Dubrovnik and Paris . He later ran a restaurant, a tennis club and a company that makes natural shampoos. He also worked for a construction company operating in Russia and acts as an importer of Suzuki vehicles to Serbia.

Shortly after the collapse of Yugoslavia, he became president of the Serbian wrestling association Rvački Savez Srbije . In this function he was soon elected to offices of the European wrestling association CELA and the NOC of Serbia. In 2006 he was elected to the FILA committee for the first time . In 2012 he was confirmed in this office. In February 2013, the IOC Executive Committee recommended that wrestling be removed from the 2020 Summer Olympics program . The previous FILA President Raphaël Martinetti resigned . As a result, Lalović, who has led the FILA on an interim basis since Martinetti's resignation, was elected the new President of the FILA with 125 out of 132 votes at an extraordinary congress in Moscow on May 18, 2013. He managed to prevent the expulsion on September 8, 2013 at the 125th General Assembly of the International Olympic Committee in Buenos Aires . When FILA was renamed United World Wrestling in September 2014, Lalović was elected for another six-year presidential mandate. Lalović has been an IOC member since 2015.

Since 1986 he has been married to Alexandra, a former professor of music and piano. The couple has two children: son Milos runs his father's shampoo company, daughter Nina works for Gazprom in Belgrade.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wrestling remains an Olympic sport , accessed on April 17, 2017
  2. ↑ United World Wrestling President recognized by the US National Wrestling Hall of Fame , accessed on April 17, 2017.

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SURNAME Lalović, Nenad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian sports official
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade