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Milenko Zorić

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Milenko Zorić
Personal information
NationalitySerbian
Born (1989-04-02) 2 April 1989 (age 36)
Sanski Most, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
CountrySerbia
SportCanoe sprint
Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Serbia
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro K-2 1000 m
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Račice K-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Milan K-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Montemor-o-Velho K-2 1000 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Belgrade K-2 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2016 Moscow K-2 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2017 Plovdiv K-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Zagreb K-4 1000 m

Milenko Zorić (Serbian Cyrillic: Миленко Зорић, born 2 April 1989) is a Serbian sprint canoer. A two-time Olympian, Zorić won an Olympic silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event in 2016. A year later he won gold at the World Championships in the same event. He is also the world record holder in the K-2 1000 m event, set at the 2018 Canoe Sprint European Championships. For all three successes he shared a boat with teammate Marko Tomićević.

Biography

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Zorić took up canoeing in 1999.[1] He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2012 Canoe Sprint European Championships in Zagreb.[2]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he competed in the K-4 1000 metres event, finishing 9th as part of the Serbia team.[3]

He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan with Marko Tomićević.[4]

In June 2016, he and Tomićević finished third behind the boats of Germany and Hungary at the 2016 Canoe Sprint European Championships, held in Moscow.[5] Their bronze medals were later upgraded to silver after Hungarian canoeists Tibor Hufnágel and Bence Dombvári were disqualified and stripped of their awards, following Dombvári testing positive for a doping offence.[6]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Zorić and Tomićević won silver medals in the men's K-2 1000 metres event, finishing second to German pair Max Rendschmidt and Marcus Gross by less than 0.2 seconds.[7] He also competed in the K-4 1000 metres in Rio as part of the Serbia team, which finished 8th.[3]

Zorić and Tomićević became world champions in August 2017: at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, they finished the K-2 1000 metres final in a time of 3 minutes, 8.647 seconds, more than two seconds ahead of the second-placed Slovak boat.[8] In December of that year the pair were named as joint winners of the Sportsman of the Year award in Serbia.[9]

Zorić and Tomićević set a new world record in the final of the 2018 Canoe Sprint European Championships in the K-2 1000 metres event on 9 June 2018, held in Belgrade, as they won the European gold medal for the first time.[10] They were congratulated on Twitter by President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Ana Brnabić for their success.[11]

References

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  1. ^ "Milenko Zoric". ICF - Planet Canoe. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Results for race no. 100". European Canoe Association. 24 June 2012. Archived from the original on 30 December 2013.
  3. ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Milenko Zoric Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  4. ^ "2015 ICF Sprint Canoeing World Championships" (PDF). canoe2015.microplustiming.com. 22 August 2015. p. 25. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  5. ^ "Moscow 2016 European Sprint Canoe Championships" (PDF). canoeicf.com. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Kajak-kenu: elvették Dombvári Bence páros Eb-ezüstjét". Nemzeti Sport (in Hungarian). 8 November 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Germany win men's double kayak 1,000m gold". BBC Sport. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  8. ^ "Tomićević i Zorić svetski prvaci". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 26 August 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  9. ^ "OKS izabrao: Mandićeva, Zorić i Tomićević najbolji u 2017. godini". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 22 December 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  10. ^ "Fastest International Canoe Federation K2 flatwater men's 1,000 metres". Guinness World Records. n.d. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Tomićević i Zorić šampioni Evrope uz svetski rekord". Radio Television of Serbia (in Serbian). 9 June 2018. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
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