Stevan Pletikosić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Плетикосић; born 14 March 1972 in Kragujevac, Serbia, then SFR Yugoslavia) is a sport shooter from Serbia. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] The year before, at the 1991 ISSF World Cup in the same event, he had become the only junior ever to achieve the maximum score of 600 in a world-class competition.
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| Born | 14 March 1972 (age 52) Kragujevac, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Yugoslavia (1989–1991) Independent Olympic Participants (1992–1994) Serbia and Montenegro (1995–2006) Serbia (2006–) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pletikosić started competing in 1982, when he was 10 years old. He won a first medal at the European Championships winning a silver at the 1989 European Shooting Championships in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia. During his career, he won another European silver medal and was European champion twice. His first international medal was won at the 1994 ISSF World Shooting Championships, which was also a silver medal. Yugoslav Olympic Committee proclaimed him sportsman of the year in 1994.[2] Pletikosić also won a silver in the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships, now in the Three positions event, and he won the 2008 ISSF World Cup competition in the Prone event in Rio de Janeiro.
Results at the Olympic Games edit
| Event | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 |
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| 50 metre rifle three positions | — | 35th 1156 |
29th 1156 |
28th 1153 |
11th 1168 |
— | 25th 1168 |
| 50 metre rifle prone |  Bronze701.1 (597) |
11th 595 |
30th 591 |
42nd 586 |
10th 594 |
— | 21st 621.6 |
| 10 metre air rifle | — | — | 38th 583 |
39th 586 |
7th 697.7 (595) |
— | — |
World records edit
Notes edit
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stevan Pletikosić". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Trofej OKS – Najuspešniji sportisti | Olimpijski komitet Srbije". Archived from the original on 20 August 2010. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
External links edit
- Stevan Pletikosić at the International Shooting Sport Federation
- Stevan Pletikosić at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Stevan Pletikosić at Olympedia
- Stevan Pletikosić at Olympics.com
- Stevan Pletikosić at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)
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