Serbia_at_the_Olympics Knowpia

Serbia at the
Olympics
Serbia at the; Olympics
IOC code	SRB
NOC	Olympic Committee of Serbia
Website	www.oks.org.rs (in Serbian)
Medals; Ranked 67th	Gold 6 Silver 7 Bronze 11 Total 24
Summer appearances
	1912; 1920–2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;
Winter appearances
	2010; 2014; 2018; 2022;
Other related appearances
	Yugoslavia (1920–1992 W); Independent Olympic Participants (1992 S); Serbia and Montenegro (1996–2006)

Serbia first participated at the Olympic Games in 1912 as the Kingdom of Serbia. The country returned to the Olympics as an independent team after ninety-six years at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

History edit

Despite not participating at the first Olympic Games in 1896 in Athens, Serbian King Aleksandar Obrenović attended the Games at the invitation of Greek King George I. At these Games Momčilo Tapavica (born in today's Serbian province Vojvodina), who competed for Kingdom of Hungary, became the first athlete from today's territory of Serbia and the first ethnic Serb to win an Olympic medal, bronze in tennis.^[1]

The Serbian Olympic Club was established on February 23, 1910. Major Svetomir Đukić is considered the founder of the Olympic movement in Serbia. In 1912, the Club changed its name to the Olympic Committee of Serbia and that year it was recognized by the International Olympic Committee.^[2]

From the 1920 Summer Olympics to the 1992 Winter Olympics, Serbian athletes participated as part of the Yugoslavian team. At the 1992 Summer Olympics, they participated as Independent Olympic Participants as their nation was under United Nations sanctions. The continuing sanctions meant that no Serbian athletes competed at the 1994 Winter Olympics. Sanctions were mostly lifted in 1995. From the 1996 Summer Olympics to the 2006 Winter Olympics, Serbian athletes participated as part of the Serbia and Montenegro team.

Seven-time Olympian shooter and 1988 gold medalist Jasna Šekarić competed under four different banners during her twenty-four-year Olympic career. She started under the flag of Yugoslavia in 1988, then she competed as an Independent Participant in 1992, under the flag of Serbia and Montenegro from 1996 to 2004, and in 2008 and 2012 she represented Serbia.

Serbian former basketball player and administrator Borislav Stanković was the Secretary General of FIBA from 1976 to 2002, and a member of the International Olympic Committee. As Secretary General, he pushed for a change in FIBA's rules to allow players from the National Basketball Association (NBA) to compete at the Olympics. Prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, only professionals in leagues other than the NBA were allowed to compete.^[3]

Participation edit

Timeline of participation edit

Date	Team
1912	as part of Austria				Serbia (SRB)
1920–1936	Kingdom of Yugoslavia (YUG)
1948–1988	SFR Yugoslavia (YUG)
1992 W	Croatia (CRO)	Slovenia (SLO)	SFR Yugoslavia (YUG)
1992 S			Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	Independent Olympic Participants (IOP)
1994				ban on participation by the UN
1996–2006				North Macedonia (MKD)	FR Yugoslavia (YUG)/ Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
2008–2014					Serbia (SRB)		Montenegro (MNE)
2016–					Serbia (SRB)	Kosovo (KOS)	Montenegro (MNE)

Medal tables edit

Medals by Summer Games edit

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1912 Stockholm	3	0	0	0	0	–
1920–1988	as part of Yugoslavia (YUG)
1992 Barcelona	as part of the Independent Olympic Participants (IOP)
1996–2004	as part of Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
2008 Beijing	92	0	1	2	3	61
2012 London	116	1	1	2	4	43
2016 Rio de Janeiro	103	2	4	2	8	32
2020 Tokyo	87	3	1	5	9	28
2024 Paris	future events
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total		6	7	11	24	67

Medals by Winter Games edit

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1924–1992	as part of Yugoslavia (YUG)
1994 Lillehammer	did not participate
1998–2006	as part of Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)
2010 Vancouver	10	0	0	0	0	–
2014 Sochi	8	0	0	0	0	–
2018 Pyeongchang	4	0	0	0	0	–
2022 Beijing	2	0	0	0	0	-
2026 Milan–Cortina	future event
Total		0	0	0	0	–

Medals by sport edit


Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Taekwondo	2	1	1	4
Water polo	2	0	2	4
Wrestling	1	0	1	2
Karate	1	0	0	1
Shooting	0	2	2	4
Basketball	0	1	1	2
Volleyball	0	1	1	2
Canoeing	0	1	0	1
Swimming	0	1	0	1
3x3 basketball	0	0	1	1
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Tennis	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)	6	7	11	24

List of medalists edit

Medal	Name(s)	Games	Sport	Event
Silver	Milorad Čavić	2008 Beijing	Swimming	Men's 100 m butterfly
Bronze	Novak Djokovic	2008 Beijing	Tennis	Men's singles
Bronze	Men's water polo team Aleksandar Ćirić Filip Filipović Živko Gocić Branko Peković Duško Pijetlović Andrija Prlainović Nikola Rađen Aleksandar Šapić Dejan Savić Denis Šefik Slobodan Soro Vanja Udovičić Vladimir Vujasinović	2008 Beijing	Water polo	Men's tournament
Gold	Milica Mandić	2012 London	Taekwondo	Women's +67 kg
Silver	Ivana Maksimović	2012 London	Shooting	Women's 50 m rifle three positions
Bronze	Andrija Zlatić	2012 London	Shooting	Men's 10 m air pistol
Bronze	Men's water polo team Milan Aleksić Filip Filipović Živko Gocić Dušan Mandić Stefan Mitrović Slobodan Nikić Duško Pijetlović Gojko Pijetlović Andrija Prlainović Nikola Rađen Slobodan Soro Aleksa Šaponjić Vanja Udovičić	2012 London	Water polo	Men's tournament
Gold	Davor Štefanek	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg
Gold	Men's water polo team Milan Aleksić Miloš Ćuk Filip Filipović Živko Gocić Nikola Jakšić Dušan Mandić Branislav Mitrović Stefan Mitrović Slobodan Nikić Duško Pijetlović Gojko Pijetlović Andrija Prlainović Sava Ranđelović	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Water polo	Men's tournament
Silver	Tijana Bogdanović	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Taekwondo	Women's 49 kg
Silver	Marko Tomićević Milenko Zorić	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Canoeing	Men's K-2 1000 m
Silver	Women's volleyball team Tijana Bošković Jovana Brakočević Bianka Buša Tijana Malešević Brankica Mihajlović Jelena Nikolić Maja Ognjenović Silvija Popović Milena Rašić Jovana Stevanović Stefana Veljković Bojana Živković	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Volleyball	Women's tournament
Silver	Men's basketball team Stefan Birčević Bogdan Bogdanović Nikola Jokić Stefan Jović Nikola Kalinić Milan Mačvan Stefan Marković Nemanja Nedović Miroslav Raduljica Marko Simonović Vladimir Štimac Miloš Teodosić	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Basketball	Men's tournament
Bronze	Ivana Španović	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Athletics	Women's long jump
Bronze	Women's basketball team Dajana Butulija Aleksandra Crvendakić Saša Čađo Ana Dabović Milica Dabović Nevena Jovanović Sara Krnjić Jelena Milovanović Danielle Page Sonja Petrović Tamara Radočaj Dragana Stanković	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Basketball	Women's tournament
Gold	Milica Mandić	2020 Tokyo	Taekwondo	Women's +67 kg
Gold	Jovana Preković	2020 Tokyo	Karate	Women's 61 kg
Gold	Men's water polo team Gojko Pijetlović Dušan Mandić Nikola Dedović Sava Ranđelović Strahinja Rašović Duško Pijetlović Đorđe Lazić Milan Aleksić Nikola Jakšić Filip Filipović Andrija Prlainović Stefan Mitrović Branislav Mitrović	2020 Tokyo	Water polo	Men's tournament
Silver	Damir Mikec	2020 Tokyo	Shooting	Men's 10 metre air pistol
Bronze	Tijana Bogdanović	2020 Tokyo	Taekwondo	Women's 49 kg
Bronze	Zurabi Datunashvili	2020 Tokyo	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg
Bronze	Milenko Sebić	2020 Tokyo	Shooting	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions
Bronze	Women's volleyball team Bianka Buša Mina Popović Slađana Mirković Brankica Mihajlović Maja Ognjenović Ana Bjelica Maja Aleksić Milena Rašić Silvija Popović Tijana Bošković Bojana Milenković Jelena Blagojević	2020 Tokyo	Volleyball	Women's tournament
Bronze	Men's 3x3 basketball team Dušan Domović Bulut Dejan Majstorović Aleksandar Ratkov Mihailo Vasić	2020 Tokyo	3x3 basketball	Men's tournament

Multiple medal winners edit

This is a list of people who have won two or more Olympic medals, who represented Serbia as an independent country at least once.

Athlete	Sport	Gender	Years	Games				Total
Filip Filipović	Water polo	M	2008–2020	Summer	2	0	2	4
Duško Pijetlović	Water polo	M	2008–2020	Summer	2	0	2	4
Andrija Prlainović	Water polo	M	2008–2020	Summer	2	0	2	4
Milan Aleksić	Water polo	M	2012–2020	Summer	2	0	1	3
Dušan Mandić	Water polo	M	2012–2020	Summer	2	0	1	3
Stefan Mitrović	Water polo	M	2012–2020	Summer	2	0	1	3
Gojko Pijetlović	Water polo	M	2012–2020	Summer	2	0	1	3
Nikola Jakšić	Water polo	M	2016–2020	Summer	2	0	0	2
Milica Mandić	Taekwondo	W	2012–2020	Summer	2	0	0	2
Branislav Mitrović	Water polo	M	2016–2020	Summer	2	0	0	2
Sava Ranđelović	Water polo	M	2016–2020	Summer	2	0	0	2
Jasna Šekarić	Shooting	W	1988–2004	Summer	1	3	1	5
Slobodan Nikić	Water polo	M	2004–2016	Summer	1	1	1	3
Živko Gocić	Water polo	M	2008–2016	Summer	1	0	2	3
Andrija Gerić	Volleyball	M	1996–2000	Summer	1	0	1	2
Nikola Grbić	Volleyball	M	1996–2000	Summer	1	0	1	2
Aleksandar Ćirić	Water polo	M	2000–2008	Summer	0	1	2	3
Aleksandar Šapić	Water polo	M	2000–2008	Summer	0	1	2	3
Dejan Savić	Water polo	M	2000–2008	Summer	0	1	2	3
Vanja Udovičić	Water polo	M	2004–2012	Summer	0	1	2	3
Vladimir Vujasinović	Water polo	M	2000–2008	Summer	0	1	2	3
Tijana Bogdanović	Taekwondo	W	2016–2020	Summer	0	1	1	2
Tijana Bošković	Volleyball	W	2016–2020	Summer	0	1	1	2
Bianka Buša	Volleyball	W	2016–2020	Summer	0	1	1	2
Brankica Mihajlović	Volleyball	W	2016–2020	Summer	0	1	1	2
Maja Ognjenović	Volleyball	W	2016–2020	Summer	0	1	1	2
Silvija Popović	Volleyball	W	2016–2020	Summer	0	1	1	2
Milena Rašić	Volleyball	W	2016–2020	Summer	0	1	1	2
Denis Šefik	Water polo	M	2004–2008	Summer	0	1	1	2
Nikola Rađen	Water polo	M	2008–2012	Summer	0	0	2	2
Slobodan Soro	Water polo	M	2008–2012	Summer	0	0	2	2

People in bold are still active competitors
Olympics in italic are medals won for the predecessor countries

Medal winners as medal winning coach edit

Athlete	Sport	Gender	Games	As participant					As head coach
Athlete	Sport	Gender	Games	Years				Total	Years				Total
Dejan Savić	Water polo	M	Summer	2000–2008	0	1	2	3	2016–2020	2	0	0	2
Goran Maksimović	Shooting	M	Summer	1988	1	0	0	1	2004–2012	0	2	1	3
Aleksandar Đorđević	Basketball	M	Summer	1996	0	1	0	1	2016	0	1	0	1

Predecessor countries edit

The Olympic Committee of Serbia, created in 1910 and recognized in 1912, is deemed the direct successor to both the Yugoslav Olympic Committee and the Olympic Committee of Serbia and Montenegro by the IOC.^[4] In the period from 1920 to 2006, athletes representing these defunct countries won a total of 99 medals: 95 at the Summer Games and 4 at the Winter Games.

Total	20	28	34	33	95	16	0	3	1	4	36	28	37	34	99
Country	№ Summer	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	№ Winter	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	№ Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Combined Total
Kingdom of Yugoslavia	5	3	2	3	8	3	0	0	0	0	8	3	2	3	8
SFR Yugoslavia	11	23	27	25	75	10	0	3	1	4	21	23	30	26	79
Independent Olympic Participants	1	0	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	3
Serbia and Montenegro	3	2	4	3	9	3	0	0	0	0	6	2	4	3	9

References edit

^ "Srbija - Atina 1896". oks.org.rs (in Serbian). Olympic Committee of Serbia. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
^ "History of Olympic Committee of Serbia on official site (Serbian)". oks.org.rs (in Serbian). Olympic Committee of Serbia. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
^ McCallum, Jack (2013). Dream Team How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever. Random House. ISBN 9780345520494. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
^ [1] Official site of Olympic Committee of Serbia, History of Olympic Committee (Serbian)