ZRENJANIN OLYMPIC NECKLACE! The e book of success of the Zrenjanin Olympians was promoted within the Baroque corridor of the Metropolis Corridor / PHOTO /

By Karen Barrister On Jul 21, 2021

The ceremony was enlarged by a large number of previous participants in the Olympic Games, Branko Simić, Davor Štefanek, Milan Nenadić, Momir Rnić, Milorad Stanulov, Željko Trajković, Aranka Binder, Miroslava Najdanovski, Zorica Mašić.

The book describes the winners of 22 Olympic medals, which have so far arrived in Zrenjanin, this year’s European City of Sports.

It is interesting to note that since the renewal of the modern Olympic Games in 1896 until today, athletes, coaches, judges or sports officials from Zrenjanin have not participated in only five, and at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the city of Zrenjanin and Serbia will be represented by Ivana Spanovic, volleyball player Maja Ognjenovic. rower Jovana Arsić, wrestlers Mate Nemeš, Zurab Datunašvili and Mihail Kadžaja, as well as national team coach Vojislav Trajković, table tennis player Dimitrije Levajac, swimmer Nikola Aćin and wrestling judge Vesna Piperaki Cucić.

The Mayor of the European City of Sports for 2021, Simo Salapura, thanked the authors of the unique book and presented the city’s sports passport to 76-year-old Branislav Simić, a wrestler who won a gold medal in Tokyo in 1964 and was the first gold medalist in individual sports in Yugoslavia. and four years later, at the Olympics in Mexico, he won a bronze medal.

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To all future generations

A kind of reminder of all the joys, successes, titles and medals, the Olympic necklace must be an incentive and motivation for the generations to come, to continue on the path of our sports champions and legends – Simo Salapura emphasized.

The historical document covers a period of 125 years

– While preparing the book, we used my experience, I have been a sports journalist and analyst of my colleague Mile Novaković for 45 years, who researched more recent events, and I was based on the older ones and we managed to complete the whole story, a historical document from 125 years – Nikola Božović pointed out.