Zoran Prerad ( Serb. Zoran Prerad / Zoran Prerad ; August 15, 1971 , Banja Luka ) - Serbian-Bosnian tae kwondo player of medium and heavy weight categories, played for the national teams of Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout the 1990s and in the first half of 2000 s. Participant of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens , bronze medalist of the World Championship, European champion, winner of many national and international tournaments.
 Zoran Prerad | |
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| Serb. Zoran Prerad | |
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| Floor | male |
| A country |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Specialization | up to 80 kg |
| Date of Birth | August 15, 1971 (47 years) |
| Place of Birth | Banja Luka , Yugoslavia |
| Growth | 185 cm |
| Weight | 94 kg |
Biography
Zoran Prerad was born on August 15, 1971 in the city of Banja Luka , Yugoslavia (now the Republika Srpska , Bosnia and Herzegovina ). He has performed at various taekwondo competitions since 1990.
He achieved the first serious success at the international level in the 1995 season when he joined the main team of the Yugoslav national team and attended the World Championships in Manila , from where he brought the bronze medal award won in the middle weight category. Three years later, he successfully performed at the European Championships in Eindhoven , defeated all his rivals in the tournament grid, including Turk Yasin Yagyz, in the final in the final and won the gold medal.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, Prerad was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , became the only taekwondo player from Bosnia and Herzegovina at this Olympics, and at that time he was already 31 years old. Nevertheless, his performance here did not last long, already in the starting bout of the heavy weight category at the preliminary stage, he was defeated by Spaniard Hon Garcia with a score of 2:13 and lost any chance of getting into the number of winners. Soon after the end of these competitions, Zoran Prerad decided to end his career as a professional athlete, giving way to the team of young Bosnian tae kwon do players [1] [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Taekwondo - Men's Heavyweight (+ 80kg / + 176lbs) Repechage Round 2 . Athens 2004 . BBC Sport (12 August 2004). The appeal date is September 24, 2013.
- ↑ Jon García se despide en la repesca (isp.) , El Mundo (29 August 2004). The appeal date is January 10, 2015.
Links
- Zoran Prerad - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (Eng.)
- Zoran Prerad (him.) - page in database Taekwondodata.de