Slobodan Branković (sprinter)

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Slobodan Branković
Medal record
Men's
athletics
Representing  Yugoslavia
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 1992 Genoa 400 m
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 1991 Athens 4x400 m

Slobodan Branković (Serbian: Слободан Бранковић; born 1 October 1967) is a Serbian former track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres. He is currently the general secretary of the Athletics Federation of Serbia.

He competed internationally for the

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He represented the former nation at the 1988 Summer Olympics, but (like a handful of other Yugoslavian athletes) competed as an individual under the Olympic flag at the 1992 Summer Olympics
.

Branković was the

Serbian national records in distances from 100 metres
to 400 m.

Career

Born in

4×400 metres relay team at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, he ran a national Yugoslavian record time of 3:03.30 minutes with Branislav Karaulić, Slobodan Popović and Ismail Mačev.[1] At the age of twenty, he ran in the 400 metres heats at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and improved the national relay record to 3:01.59 minutes in the semi-finals of the relay event.[2]

At the start of 1989 Branković ran an indoor personal best over

Split. He ran a career best of 45.30 seconds for the 400 m to qualify for the final (a time which is the current Serbian record) and finished sixth overall. As part of the relay team he helped the Yugoslavian men reach fifth place. Another Yugoslavian relay record came for him at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics: competing in a team which also featured Dejan Jovković, Nenad Đurović and Mačev, he reached the final of the competition with the country's first sub-three-minute mark for the event (2:59.95 min).[4] The Yugoslavian team came fourth in the relay final, just over two tenths of a second behind bronze medallists Jamaica.[5]

Branković won the

dissolution of Yugoslavia, he was one of nine athletes to compete independent of a nation at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[7] He reached the quarter-finals of the 400 m at the Games of Barcelona. Branković was a representative of Europe at the 1992 IAAF World Cup and came fifth overall in the 400 m.[8] For his achievements that year, the sports daily Спорт
nominated him for their "Golden Badge", recognising him as their Yugoslav sportsman of the year.

He completed a 100/200 m double at the national championships in 1993 with personal best times of 10.33 seconds and 20.98 seconds, respectively (his 100 m time was the fastest ever run at the championships at that point).[3] Later that year, he took part in the 1993 World Championships in Athletics and ran in the heats of the 200 m.[9] His final international performance came in the heats of the 400 m at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships.[10]

Following his retirement from athletic competition, he moved into the field of

athletics administration and rose to the position of general secretary at the Athletics Federation of Serbia.[11] He led the organising committee for the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships held in Belgrade.[12]

See also

  • Serbian records in athletics

References

  1. IAAF
    (1987-09-05). Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  2. ^ Slobodan Branković. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  3. ^ a b c Yugoslavian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  4. ^ 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics Tokyo 23-Aug/01-Sep-91 Results - 4 X 400 METRES - Men - Semi-Final Archived 2012-09-12 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (1991-08-31). Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  5. ^ 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics Tokyo 23-Aug/01-Sep-91 Results - 4 X 400 METRES - Men - Final. IAAF (1991-09-01). Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  6. ^ European Indoor Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  7. ^ Individual Olympic Participants Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  8. ^ 1st Continental Cup Handbook 2010. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  9. ^ Brankovic, Slobodan. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  10. ^ 6th IAAF World Indoor Championships - 400 Metres Men - First Round 07-03-97 Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  11. ^ Athletic Federation of Serbia Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-06-28.
  12. ^ Media Guide. Belgrade2017. Retrieved on 2017-03-04.

External links

Awards
Preceded by
The Best Athlete of Yugoslavia

1992 		Succeeded by
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