Ivan Miljković

Ivan Miljković
Miljković with Serbia during World League in July 2009.
Personal information
Full name Ivan Miljković
Nationality Serbian
Born (1979-09-13) September 13, 1979
Niš, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)
Weight 88 kg (194 lb)
Spike 354 cm (139 in)
Block 333 cm (131 in)
Volleyball information
Position Opposite
Number 14
Career
YearsTeams
1996–2000
2000–2007
2007–2008
2008–2010
2010–2015
2015–2016
2016–2017		OK Partizan
Lube Banca Macerata
M. Roma Volley
Olympiacos Piraeus
Fenerbahçe Istanbul
Cucine Lube Civitanova
Halkbank Ankara
National team
1998–2003
2003–2006
2006–2012		 Yugoslavia
 Serbia and Montenegro
 Serbia (288)
Honours
Men's Volleyball
Olympic Games
2000 Sydney
World Championship
1998 Japan
2010 Italy
World Cup
2003 Japan
World Grand Champions Cup
2001 Japan
World League
2003 Madrid
2005 Belgrade
2008 Rio de Janeiro
2009 Belgrade
2002 Belo Horizonte
2004 Rome
European Championship
2001 Czech Republic
2011 Austria/Czech Republic
1999 Austria
2005 Serbia and Montenegro/Italy
2007 Russia
Last updated: 29 December 2017

Ivan Miljković (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Миљковић pronounced [ǐv̞an mǐːʎkɔv̞it͡͡ɕ]; born September 13, 1979) is a Serbian volleyball player, a member of Serbia men's national volleyball team in 1998–2012, Beijing 2008), Olympic Champion 2000, European Champion (2001, 2011), medalist of World Championship, World Grand Champions Cup, World Cup and World League.

Career

Clubs

After this success he changed his club and started playing for Italian Lube Banca Macerata. In 2001 the Yugoslav team won the European Volleyball Championship[1] in Ostrava, Czech Republic. With his club, Lube Banca Macerata, he also won the Champions League (2001), twice the Italian Cup (2001, 2003) and three times the CEV Cup (2001, 2005, 2006).

Miljkovic with Serbia national team

On July 18, 2007, he signed a contract with the M. Roma Volley. The following year, on July 5, 2008, Olympiacos, announced that he will be continuing his career in Greece. In 2009 he won the Greek Championship and the Greek Cup and in 2010 the championship. On June 30, 2010, he signed a two-year contract for Fenerbahçe SK of Turkey.[2] With Fenerbahçe he won 2011 and 2012 Turkish volleyball league, 2012 Turkish Cup, 2011 and 2012 Turkish Super Cup and 2014 European Challenge Cup. Miljković played for Fenerbahçe Grundig in 2010–2015.[3] Miljković in 2015 sing in Italian club Cucine Lube Civitanova. Miljković in 2016 back to Turkey League.[4]

He ended up his career after achieving gold medal of Turkish Championship in May 2017.[5]

National team

He played in the national team of FR Yugoslavia for the first time a year later (on October 4, 1998, in a game against Turkey). In 2000 in Sydney the Yugoslav national team (members of which were also Vladimir Grbić, Nikola Grbić, Andrija Gerić, Goran Vujević) won the Olympic gold medal.[6] In the final match against Russia Ivan Miljković scored the last point and after that fell on his knees. In March 2012, has officially retired from the Serbian National Team after 14 years and 288 played matches.[7]

Style of play

Miljković is regularly on the top of the best spikers list in the tournaments and has a great jump serve. He is very well built and extremely strong opposite hitter who has variety of different shots; he can swing the ball away with a power or using his good technique. For an extremely big player Miljković moves surprisingly well. He has a good footwork and is quick from his feet; therefore he is able to generate good speed for his approach from any distance to the ball.

Sporting achievements

Clubs

CEV Champions League

CEV Challenge Cup

CEV Cup

National League

  • Champions Italia – 2005–2006
  • Champions Greece – 2008–2009, 2009–2010
  • Champions Turkey – 2010–2011, 2011–2012, 2016–2017

Individually

Record

References

  1. ↑ Milosavljevic, Zoran (February 14, 2008). "Love of volleyball keeps Ivan Miljkovic going". Reuters. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
  2. ↑ Ivan Milijkovic signed a two-year contract
  3. ↑ Ivan Miljkovic Fenerbahçe’de – fenerbahce.org – October 30, 2010
  4. ↑ Big Singing Of Halkbank – Ivan Mijković!
  5. ↑ Legendarny siatkarz Ivan Miljković zakończył karierę. Opuścił parkiet jako mistrz, ze łzami w oczach - wp.pl - 04-05-2017
  6. ↑ "Serbia and Montenegro Volleyball at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on May 8, 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
  7. ↑ Geni about – Ivan Miljković
  8. ↑ "Η χρυσή βίβλος της Volleyleague". volleyleague. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ volleyball-movies.net Best volleyball players in the history
  10. ↑ The World’s Best Scorers In The Rally Scoring Era
  11. ↑ The World’s Best Scorers In The Rally Scoring Era
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Nikola Grbić		 Serbia captain
2011		 Succeeded by
Bojan Janić
Awards
Preceded by
Italy Andrea Giani
Poland Piotr Gruszka		 Most Valuable Player of
European Championship
2001
2011		 Succeeded by
Italy Andrea Sartoretti
Russia Dmitriy Muserskiy
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