Veljko Uskoković
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Veljko Uskoković (Template:Langx; born 29 March 1971 in Cetinje, Montenegro) is a retired Montenegrin water polo player.[1] His club achievements are: European Champion 2000 (Becej team), 4 times Yugoslav Champion (Budvanska rivijera and Becej) 4 times Yugoslav Cup Winner (Budvanska rivijera and Becej). Member of Yugoslav national water polo team from 1991 to 2002. Team captain from 1996 to 2001. Uskoković played more than 300 games, and scored over 400 goals.
With national teams, Uskoković won: gold at the European Championship in Athens 1991, Budapest 2001 and Malaga 2008, silver at the European Championship in Seville 1997, bronze at the Olympic games in Sydney 2000, played at Olympic games Atlanta 1996 and Beijing 2008, bronze at the World Championship in Perth 1998, silver at the World Championship in Fukuoka 2001, gold medal at the Universiade in Fukuoka 1995, gold medal at the Mediterranean games in Bari 1997. Played for the World's Best Water Polo Team 2000 and 2001. This success, in combination with geo-political changes, makes him the only water polo player in the world who won gold medals with four different national water polo teams: representing SFR Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro and finally Montenegro.
He was given the honour to carry the national flag of Montenegro at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, becoming the 22nd water polo player to be a flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.[2]
From 2008 he is waterpolo coach in ''Primorac'' and ''Cattaro'' club in Kotor, Montenegro. He is waterpolo coach in junior national team, too. Best result as a coach silver medal in Junior World Championship 2016.
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Clubs honours
- 1999-00 LEN Euroleague - File:Simple cup icon.svg Champion, with VK Bečej Naftagas
See also
- Montenegro men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of flag bearers for Montenegro at the Olympics
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
References
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- ↑ Montenegro. Olympics at Sport-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Accessed 25 October 2011.
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- Montenegrin male water polo players
- 21st-century Montenegrin sportsmen
- Serbia and Montenegro male water polo players
- European champions for Serbia and Montenegro
- Olympic bronze medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
- Olympic water polo players for Montenegro
- Yugoslav male water polo players
- Water polo players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Cetinje
- Olympic medalists in water polo
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo
- Mediterranean Games medalists in water polo
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
- Water polo players at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
- Summer World University Games medalists in water polo
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
- Montenegrin water polo coaches
- European champions for Montenegro
- Montenegrin expatriate water polo players
- Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Italy