Stevan Pletikosić
Medal record | ||
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Men's Shooting | ||
Olympic Games | ||
Competed as an Independent Participant | ||
Bronze | 1992 Barcelona | 50 m Rifle prone |
Competitor for Yugoslavia | ||
World Championships | ||
Silver | 1994 Italy | 50 m Rifle prone |
Mediterranean Games | ||
Silver | 1997 Bari | 50 m Rifle prone |
Competitor for Serbia and Montenegro | ||
World Championships | ||
Silver | 2006 Zagreb | 50 m Rifle TP |
Mediterranean Games | ||
Gold | 2005 Almería | 50 m Rifle prone |
Stevan Pletikosić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стеван Плетикосић) (born March 14, 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. 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.
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.[1] 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
Event | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 |
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50 metre rifle three positions | — | 35th 1156 |
29th 1156 |
28th 1153 |
11th 1168 |
50 metre rifle prone | Bronze 701.1 (597) |
11th 595 |
30th 591 |
42nd 586 |
10th 594 |
10 metre air rifle | — | — | 38th 583 |
39th 586 |
7th 697.7 (595) |