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Serbian
Swimming Team at the
Beijing
2008 Olympic Games
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Beijing,
China, August 08 - 24, 2008
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This
page follows all activities of the participants of Serbia at the 29th
Olympic
Games - Beijing 2008
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August
17,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-9
The last day - 2 WRs, Michael Phelps's 8th Gold Medal...
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(Beijing, CHN) - In the Day-9 morning in Beijing, four finals have been
held after which the curtain of the swimming activities of the 29th
Olympics
is settled down. In the fastest women's race, the 50 m Free,
German
record holder Britta Steffen set the Olympic record with the
time
of 24.06, followed by great Dara Thorres (USA) 41-year old
Olympian
at the second (24.07 ARec) and Cate Campbell (AUS) who earned bronze in
24.17. |
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In the Men's 1500 m Free Tunisian Oussama Mellouli proved
faster
than the Australian Hackett with the tiime of 14:40.84 (African
record).
Hackett settled for the silver medal in 14:41.53. |
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The Australian Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay team (Emily
Seebohm,
Leisel
Jones, Jessicah Schipper, and Lisbeth Trickett
) broke
the WR and took the gold medal with the time of 3:52.69 and slash 3.05
seconds off the old world mark. |
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In the Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay final-- Michael Phelps
won his record eighth gold medal. The US team of Aaron Peirsol,
Brendan
Hansen, Jason Lezak and Phelps won in a time of
3:29.34
and in doing so broke the world record by 1.34 seconds. The Australian
team of Hayden Stoeckel, Andrew Lauterstein, Rickard and Sullivan
finished
0.70 seconds behind the US to win silver in an Oceania record 3:30.04,
also under the old world record. Watch the complete Beijing's
Day-9
Official Results |
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Water Cube NAC - will be memorized not only re. the numerous
World, Olympic, Continental and National records, but also because of
the
first Serbian silver Olympic swimming medal earned by Milorad Cavic -
in
100 fly... (Photo by Nikolay Krastev) |
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August
16,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-8
Mike Cavic - Silver Olympic Medal for Serbia ...
Serbs
in the Morning Finals - Mike Cavic 50.59...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Final
Rank |
| Cavic
Milorad (1984) |
100 m Fly Men |
0:50.92 |
0:50.59 ER,
NRec |
2nd - Silver
Medal |
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(Beijing, CHN) - In the Day-8 morning, four finals and two semi finals
were concluded, where in the Beijing's Water Cube NAC, few great
races have been held... Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain
broke
the oldest world record of the Women's 800m Freestyle (8:14.10).
Brazil's
Cesar
Cielo Filho sprang a major upset to beat his more fancied rivals to
the wall in the Men's 50m Freestyle final. Filho Cielo, who had
qualified
fastest for the final, emerged from a wall of white water as the
jubilant
and surprise winner in an Olympic record time of 21.30. After winning
three
silver medals at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, Kirsty Coventry
of Zimbabwe finally won gold in the Women's 200m Back and smashed the
world
record with a time of 2:05.24. World record holder Margaret Hoelzer
(USA)
finished with the silver medal in 2:06.23, 0.99 seconds behind
Coventry.
Watch the Beijing's Day-8
Official Results |
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In the Men's 100 m Fly final Milorad
Mike Cavic (1984) touched 2nd (50.59), behind Michael Phelps in
just 1/100 seconds to earn silver Olympic Medal. This was his LBT,
European
Record and the National record. Phelps and Cavic battled it out
in
the last 50m. A monumental upset looked to be approaching - until
Phelps
dug deep and out-touched Cavic on the wall. Michael Phelps won
in
an Olympic record time of 50.58, to take his tally of gold medals to
seven,
but only just, and by the slimmest of margins - 0.01 seconds.
Australia's
Andrew
Lauterstein capped a great series of swims in the heats and semis
to
win the bronze medal with the time of 51.12. But, the world
record
holder Ian Crocker (USA), who has been breathing down Phelps'
neck
this year with some threatening times, only arrived in 4th place with a
time of 51.13. |
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Mlorad
Mike Cavic - The greatest sports achievement. On Aug. 16, 2008
(which will be signed with the gold letters) Cavic eared the Silver
Olympic
medal for himself as well as the first one for Serbia in Beijing...
Eight
consecutive years at the World and European events also three
times
at the Olympic Games (at the Sidney 2000, Athens 2004 and now Beijing
2008)
), this guy from California, USA brings the glory for Serbia (the
native
land of his parents).
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August
15,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-7
Mike Cavic - in 100 Fly SF again beats Michael Phelps ...
Serbs
in the Morning Semi Finals - Mike Cavic
50.92...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Qualify
Rank |
| Cavic
Milorad (1984) |
100 m Fly Men |
0:50.76 |
0:50.92 |
1st of 16
participants - for
F |
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(Beijing, CHN) - In the Day-7 morning semis and finals, Rebecca Soni
of the United States caused a sensation in the Women's 200m Breast
final
by downing WR holder Leisel Jones (AUS) to win the gold medal in a
World
record 2:20.22. Michael Phelps broke the 6th world
record
to win the Men's 200m IM gold medal. He clocked in the winning time of
1:54.23 to better his own world record of 1:54.80, set on July 4, 2008.
Hungarian Laszlo Cseh put in another great performance, again
edging
out Phelps' teammate Ryan Lochte to win the silver medal in a European
record time of 1:56.52... Ryan Lochte of the United States had
to
fight off a strong Russian challenge but finished with a gold medal and
a new WR in the Men's 200m Back final (1:53.94) followed by Peirsol
(USA)
1:54.33 and Vyatchanin (RUS) 1:54.93 - new ER. Britta
Steffen
of
Germany won the gold medal of the Women's 100m Freestyle in a time of
53.12.
The silver medal went to world record holder Lisbeth Trickett of
Australia,
who clocked 53.16, while the bronze medal was taken by Natalie Coughlin
of the United States, who touched the wall in 53.39. Swimming in the
ultimate
power shoot-out, the Men's 50m Freestyle, none posted a time to
threaten
Australian Eamon Sullivan's world record of 21.28. Among the 16
athletes,
Brazilian Cesar Cielo was ranked first with the time of
21.34...
In the evening heats of the Day-7 Grant Hackett of Australia
set
the new OR in the Men's 1,500 Free (14:38.92).. AUS Women's Realy
4x100
Medley set the OR (3:32.76). Watch the Beijing's Day-7
Official Results |
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In the Men's 100 m Fly semi finals Milorad
Mike Cavic (1984) confirmed the first world position in this
discipline.
Among the 16 athletes in two semi finals he swam out the top time 50.76
followed again by Michael Phelps (USA), Luterstein (AUS), Crocker (USA)
and other world stars. Miroslava
Najdanovski canceled the 50 Free heats... |
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| Mike Cavic
- two times in two days - better then the world swim miracle
Michael Phelps - is that enough for someone to recognize
who
is the world king of the men's 100 m buttefly in the present... |
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August
14,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-6
More World & Olympic RECs in this morning Semis & Finals ...
Serbs
in the Evening Qualifications - Mike
Cavic
Olympic Record 50.76...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Qualify
Rank |
| Cavic
Milorad (1984) |
100 m Fly Men |
0:51.65 |
0:50.76 OR,NRec |
1st of 65
participants - for
SF |
| Lendjer
Ivan (1990) |
100 m Fly Men |
0:52.62 |
0:53.41 |
40th of 65
participants |
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(Beijing, CHN) - In the Day-6 morning semis and finals, World and
defending
Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) led all the way to
take gold in the Men's 200m Breaststroke in an Olympic record 2:07.64.
In the Women's 200m Fly final, Liu Zige of China won the
gold
medal with a new WR (2:04.18). In the Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle
Relay
the
Australian
team finished the race in a time of 7:44.31, a new world record.
French
sprinter Alain Bernard snatched the Olympic title of the Men's
100m
Freestyle in an intense duel with world record holder Eamon Sullivan of
Australia. Bernard won the race in 47.21 seconds, beating Sullivan who
clocked 47.32. American Jason Lezak got the bronze in 47.67. In the
Women's
200 Breast Rebecca Soni (USA) with the time of 2:22.64 beats
Leisel
Jones (AUS) - 2:23.04 and Mirna Jukic (AUT) - 2:23.76 who set the new
ER...
More interesting events are expected today in the evening
preliminaries.
Watch the complete Beijing's Day-6
Official Results |
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In the evening heats, two best Serbian swimmers took part in the
Men's 100 m Fly: Milorad
Mike Cavic (1984) set the new OR (50.76) in front of Phelps,
Serdivov,
Dunford and others, while Ivan
Lendjer (1990) was ranked 40th with the time of 53.41... |
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| Mike
Cavic - sending greetings to his fans at the tribune of the Water
Cube
NAC in Beijing, since he finished his marvelous LBT race in 100 Fly
Heat
9... |
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August
13,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-5
Five new World Records in this morning Semis & Finals ...
Serbs
in the Evening Qualifications...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Qualify
Rank |
| Najdanovski
Miroslava
(1988) |
100 m Free
Women |
0:55.87 |
0:56.50 |
38th of 48
participants |
| Higl Nadja
(1987) |
200 m Breast
Women |
2:30.51 |
2:32.78 |
33rd of 40
participants |
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(Beijing, CHN) - The morning of the Day-5 semis & finals brought
new
five WRs, one OR, AR, As and many nationals. In the most popular event
100m Free, in the semi finals, Eamon Sullivan (AUS) broke WR
with
the time of 47.05. Federica Pellegrini (ITA) in the
Women's
200m Free also set WR (1:54.82). Then Michael Phelps in 200m
Fly
picked his fourth gold (overall 11th Olympic gold medal) set the new WR
(1:52.03), in front of Cseh (HUN) - 1:52.70 (new ER).. In the Men's
200m
Breast semis, Kosuke Kitajima (JPN) set the OR with the time of
2:08.61. Fourth and fifth WRs were set by Stephanie Rice (AUS)
in
Women's 200 IM (2:08.45) and the US Men's 4 x 200m Freestyle team,
that was led out by the indomitable Michael Phelps, who smashed the
world
record and won the gold medal (6:58.56) in front of the Russia's Team
(7:03.70,
new ER). Watch the complete Day-5
Official Results |
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In the evening heats, members of the Serbian squad swam out not so
worthy
races: Miroslava
Najdanovski (1988) in the Women's 100m Free (56.50) and Nadja
Higl (1987) in the Women's 200m Breast (2:32.78 - ranked
33rd of 40 athletes)... |
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Until the Beijing's Day-5, American swimmer Michael Phelps succeeded to
fulfill his treasure with the 11 Gold Olimpic medals (incl. Athens). (Photo
by Nikolay Krastev) |
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August
12,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-4
The new WRs and ORs - Cavic ranked 6th in 100 Free NREC ...
Serbs
in the Evening Qualifications...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Qualify
Rank |
| Cavic
Milorad (1984) |
100 m Free
Men |
0:49.14 |
0:48.15 NRec |
6th of 64
participants |
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(Beijing, CHN) - The morning of the Day-4 semis & finals brought
more
WRS. In his 3rd Gold medal, Michael Phelps (USA) eased his way
to
a WR in the Men's 200m Free final on Tuesday and remains on course to
win
eight gold medals at the Beijing 2008. In the 200 Fly semis, Phelps
equaled
OR with the time of 1:53.70. Aaron Peirsol (USA) finished the
race
in first place in a time of 52.54 to win the gold in the Men's 100m
Backstroke
final, setting a new WR in the process. Kirsty Coventry (ZIM)
set
the new OR in 200 IM semis (2:09.53). Daniel Gyurta (HUN) in
the
evening preliminaries set the new OR in 200 Breast (2:08.68). In the
Men's
4x200 Free relay, the USA squad (Walters, Berens, Vendt, Keller) set
the
new OR (7:04.66) while Italian team set new ER (7:07.84). Leisel
Jones
confirmed her dominance of Women's Breast in the 100m final, winning
the
gold medal in a time of 1:05.17 (new OR). Natalie Coughlin (USA) won
gold
medal in the Women's 100m Backstroke final in an AR time of 58.96. Day-4
Official Results |
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In the evening heats, the only member of the Serbian swim squad was its
best men's swimmer. Milorad
Cavic swam out 100m Free with the new national record and his
LBT
48.15 and was ranked 6th of 64 competitors in this event. |
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Unbelievable conditions for the world records in Beijing. (Photo
by Nikolay Krastev) |
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August
11,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-3
The new WRs harvest continued - M.Ostojic NREC in 200 Free...
Serbs
in the Evening Qualifications...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Qualify
Rank |
| Markovic
Vladan (1977) |
200 m Fly
Men |
2:00.36 |
2:03.12 |
43rd of 44
participants |
| Ostojic
Milica (1991) |
200 m Free
Women |
2:03.43 |
2:03.19 NRec |
40th of 46
participants |
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(Beijing, CHN) - The morning of the Day-3 semis & finals brought
more
3 new WRs, 1 OR and 2 ERs... In the Women's 100m Backstroke
Zimbabwean
Kristy
Coventry set new WR with a time of 58.77. In the Men’s 100 m
Beast,
fantastic Kitajima Kosuke of Japan finished the race in first
place
in a time of 58.91 to set a new WR. In Men’s 100 m Back semi finals,
top
time earned Hayden Stoeckel (AUS) with the new Olympic record (52.97).
Arkady Vyatchanin (RUS) set ER (53.06). The surprise appeared in the
Women’s
400 Free final. Rebecca Adlington (GBR) won with the time of 4:03.22 in
front of Katie Hoff (USA) - 4:03.29. Third WR of the Day-3 set
the
USA
Men’s Realy team in 4x100 Free (Phelps, Weber-Gale, Jones and
Lezak) - 3:08.24, followd by France (3:08.32 - ER) and Australia
(3:09.91
- OC). Federica Pellegrini in the 200 Free heats set new WR
(1:55.45)..
Worthy races were also swam by Leisel Jones (AUS) in 100 Breast
(:05.80)
and by P. Vanderkaay of USA in 200 Free Semis (1:45.76), while
Phelps
finished “just” as 4th with the time of 1:46.28). Watch out the
complete
Day-3
Official Results |
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In the evening heats, two members of the Serbian squad took part in
their
events: Vladan
Markovic in the Men's 200 Fly finished 43rd (2:03.12) while Milica
Ostojic set the new National record in the Women’s 200 Free
(2:03.19)
- ranked 40th of 46. |
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Kosuke Kitajima of Japan at the final - After 6 Olympic records that
were
broken in the previos days in Beijing, in the Men’s 100 m Beast,
fantastic
Kitajima finished the race in first place in a time of 58.91 to set a
new
WR. (Photo
by Chen Kai) |
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August
10,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-2
Two new WRs and ORs, also Two new Serbian NRECs ...
Serbs
in the Evening Qualifications...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Qualify
Rank |
| Siljevski
Radovan (1986) |
100 m Breast
Men |
1:51.34 |
1:50.25 NRec |
40th of 57
participants |
| Strazmester
Marica
(1981) |
100 m Back
Women |
1:03.76 |
1:03.56 NRec |
40th of 48
participants |
| Higl Nadja
(1987) |
100 m Breast
Women |
1:11.15 |
1:13.19 |
43rd of 49
participants |
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(Beijing, CHN) - Day-2 of the swim events in Beijing brought nice
achievements.
In the morning finals Michael Phelps swam to his first Gold
medal
and the WR clocking 4:03.84 in the 400 m IM. Laszlo Cseh (HUN) got the
silver in 4:06.16 while Ryan Lochte (USA) finished third in 4:08.09. Stephanie
Rice (AUS) beat the WR by 1.67 seconds to win the gold medal in the
final of the Women's 400m IM in a time of 4:29.45. Alexander Dale
Oen
(NOR) once again reset the OR for the 100 Breast finishing the first in
SF (59.16). Kitajima Kosuke (59.55) of Japan placed second with
Australian
Brenton Rickard (59.65) coming in third. Kirsty Coventry of
Zimbabwe
broke the Olympic Record in the Women's 100m Backstroke prelims,
clocking
59.00. Leisel Jones (AUS) in the 100 breast prelims set the new
OR (1:05.64). Watch out the complete Day-2
Official Results |
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Three Serbian Olympians took part in the qualifications this evening at
the Water Cube. Radovan
Siljevski swam out the NRec in 200 free (1:50.25) and was
placed 40th of 57 participants. Marica
Strazmester in 100 backstroke swam out the NRec with the
time of 1:03.56 and was ranked 40th of 48 athletes. Nadja
Higl swam out the Women's 100 Breast (1:13.19) and was ranked
43rd
of 49 competitors. |
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Radovan Siljevski, Nadja Higl, Sebastijan Higl (Coach) and Marica
Strazmester,
at the time of the latest preparation in Taijing, prior to start of the
Olimpiad in Beijing... |
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August
09,
2008......................................................................................................................
Day-1
Five swimmers broke OR in Men's 100 Breast Prelims...
Serbs
in the Evening Qualifications...
| Competitor |
Event |
Entered
time |
Result |
Qualify
Rank |
| Siladji
Caba (1990) |
100 m Breast
Men |
1:02.53 |
1:02.31 |
40th of 65
participants |
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(Beijing, CHN) - Day-1 of the swimming at the Olympic Games was
unbelievable.
The Olympic record was broken by 5 swimmers in the Men’s
100m Breast prelims. Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) was the top
finisher
(59.41). Japan's Kitajima Kosuke (59.52), placed second with Frances
Hugues
Duboscq in third (59.67). Australian Brenton Rickard (59.89) and South
African Cameron van der Burgh (59.96) also broke the former record of
1:00.01.
Serbian swimmer Caba Siladji swam out in his worthy time
1:02.31
and was placed 40th of 65.. Watch out the Day-1
Official Results |
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Michael Phelps did a miracle at the beginning. In the 400m IM he
brought
his fans to their feet, beating the Olympic record he set in Athens
(4:07.82).
In the Women’s 100m Fly, Jessicah Schipper (AUS) had the fastest time
in
the prelims finishing the race in 57.58. Men’s 400m Free top time
caught
Larsen Jensen (USA) - 3:43.10 |
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Caba Siladji, Milica Ostojic, Ivan Lendjer and Dejan Pejinovic, Coach,
really worthy future of the Serbian swimming sport - at their departure
to Beijing 2008... |
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August
08,
2008......................................................................................................................
More
then
10,000 athletes from 204 countries at the opening...
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(Beijing, CHN) - The 29th Olympic Games in the City of Beijing, the
China's
capital have started with spectacle. This evening in the brand new
stadium
"Bird's nest", more than 90,000 people witnessed the unbeilvable
opening
ceremony with more than 10.000 athletes at the stadium ground and 4
billion
people wathcing all around the world. Serbian team has been represented
with 92 athletes overall. In swimming with the next athletes: M.Cavic,
V.Markovic, M.Strazmester I.Lendjer, M.Najdanovski, C.Siladji, N.Higl,
R.Siljevski and M.OStojic. For our Special Web Blog from Beijing - few
of our reporters will cover the participation of all our athletes. |
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Serbian swim stars in Beijing, prior to the openings.
(Photo by M.Strazmester) |
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Ana
Ivanovic &
Marica Starzmester
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With
Serbian and
the world tennis stars
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With
the Serbian
Voleyball stars
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SRB
swim squad
at the training
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August
07,
2008.................................................................................................................
The
Complete
Program - Schedule of the events in Beijing...
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August
06,
2008.....................................................................................................................
The National
Selection of Serbia for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008...
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The Serbian Swim Association has announced the final roster of the
National
team for the upcoming Olympic Games Beijing 2008 being held at the
National
Aquatic center (Water Cube) in Beijing from 09 to 24 of August
2008. |
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The national selection of Serbia for the Olympic Games will be
consisted
of the next participants: Milorad Cavic (100 Fly & 100 Free);
Vladan Markovic (200 fly); Ivan Lendjer (100 Fly), Caba Siladji (100
Breaststroke);
Radovan Siljevski (200 free); Miroslava Najdanovski (50 & 100
Free); Nadja Higl (100 & 200 Breaststroke) and Milica Ostojic (200
Free)... Coaches of the national selection: Petar Popovic and Dejan
Pejinovic.
Director of the national team - Mladen Kapor. |
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Cavic
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Markovic
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Lendjer
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Siladji
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Najdanovski
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Milorad
(1984)
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Vladan
(1977)
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Ivan
(1990)
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Caba
(1990)
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Miroslava
(1988)
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SC
Partizan, Belgrade
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SC Z.Delfin,
Belgrade
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SC
Proleter, Zrenjanin
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SC
Novi Sad, Novi Sad
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SC
Proleter, Zrenjanin
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Ostojic
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Strazmester
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Higl
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Siljevski
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Kapor
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Milica
(1991)
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Marica
(1981)
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Nadja
(1987)
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Radovan
(1986)
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Mladen,
Director
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SC Beograd,
Beograd
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Alcorcorn,ESP
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SC
Tamis, Pancevo
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SC
Partizan, Belgrade
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