Nikola Stojić

Nikola Stojić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Никола Стојић ; born December 15, 1974 in Belgrade ) is a former Serbian rower who took part in the Olympic Games four times. In 2007 and 2013 he was European champion in two-man without a helmsman .

Athletic career

Stojić started rowing in 1986. In 1992 he finished fifth at the Junior World Championships in a pair without a helmsman . In 1994 he started in a foursome with a helmsman at the Nations Cup, the forerunner of the U23 World Championships , where he finished fifth, and won the title the following year. At the 1995 World Championships in the adult class , he reached the A-final with the four-man with a helmsman and finished sixth. In 1996, Stojić reached sixth place with the controlled foursome at both the Nations Cup and the World Championships .

After a tenth place in the double scull at the 1997 World Championships , Stojić won his first international medal in the adult division at the 1998 World Championships . Together with Đorđe Višacki in two without a helmsman, he won the bronze medal behind the German Detlef Kirchhoff and Robert Sens and the Australians Drew Ginn and Mike McKay . In 1999 Nikola Stojić tried his hand at the one , but only finished 13th at the World Championships . In 2000 he rowed again with Đorđe Višacki in two. The two won the Rowing World Cup in Munich, and they finished fifth at the Olympic Games in Sydney .

At the 2001 World Championships , the British James Cracknell and Matthew Pinsent won in two without a helmsman in front of Stojić and Višacki. A year later, the two finished fifth at the World Championships in Seville . In 2003 Nikola Stojić rowed with his new partner Mladen Stegić to eighth place at the world championships . At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 , the two achieved fifth place.

In the 2005 season, Stojić started in a single as in 1999, and at the World Championships he finished tenth. In 2006, Stojić won the World Cup in Munich with Goran Jagar and came second in Poznan. At the World Championships in Eton , Stojić started in two boat classes: in the two-man without a helmsman he finished eleventh with Jagar, in the non-Olympic two - man with a helmsman he won the title together with Jovan Popović and helmsman Ivan Ninković . Stojić also competed in two boat classes at the 2007 World Championships : Together with Jagar he reached sixth place in the uncontrolled two-man, in the non-Olympic four-man with helmsman Marko Marjanović , Jovan Popović, Goran Jagar, Nikola Stojić and helmsman Saša Mimić won the silver medal behind the US -Four. Three weeks after the World Championships in Munich, the European Championships took place in Poznan , Stojić and Jagar won the title.

The following year, Stojić and Jagar took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and came in seventh. At the end of the season, the two Serbs won the silver medal at the European Championships behind the Greek two. In 2009 Stojić and Jagar took eighth place at the World Championships , at the European Championships they won silver, as in the previous year, behind the, albeit relocated, Greek two. In 2010, another Greek boat with another crew won the European Championships , followed by the Italian two-man winning silver and Marko Marjanović and Nikola Stojić receiving the bronze medal. At the 2010 World Championships , Marjanović and Stojić reached tenth place. In 2011 Stojić finished tenth again at the 2011 World Championships , this time together with Jovan Popović. At the European Championships , the two Serbs won bronze behind the Greeks and the Italians.

In 2012 in London Nikola Stojić took part in the Olympic Games for the fourth time, together with Nenad Beđik he reached the B-final, to which the two Serbs did not take part. At the European Championships , the two won the bronze medal behind the Dutch and the Spanish boat. At the beginning of the 2013 season, Beđik and Stojić won the title at the European Championships in Seville, ahead of the Poles and the Dutch. At the 2013 World Championships , the two achieved ninth place. A year later, Stojić also reached ninth place at the 2014 World Championships , but in a four-man without a helmsman . In this boat class, Stojić tried to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in 2015 , but 14th place at the 2015 World Championships was not enough. He competed again at the Rowing World Cup in Varese in 2016, after which his twenty-year competitive sports career ended.

The 1.98 m tall Nikola Stojić rowed for Red Star Belgrade and Partizan Belgrade .

Web links

• Nikola Stojić at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Nikola Stojić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rowing - Men's Pair Heat 3 ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )