Luka Stevanović

Luka Stevanović
Personal information
Full name Luka Stevanović
Nationality  Serbia
Born (1991-05-18) May 18, 1991
Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 91 kg (201 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, Freestyle
Club PK Vračar, Belgrade

Luka Stevanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Лука Стевановић, born May 18, 1991, in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired swimmer from Serbia. He was a member of Swimming Club Vračar Belgrade, and was one of the fastest sprinters in his generation in Serbia. He competed in 50m butterfly, 50m and 100m freestyle.

Career

Luka Stevanović started his swimming career in 2004, in Swimming Club Belgrade[1], located on Tašmajdan swimming pool, under leadership of his coach Slavko Kurbanović, former Serbian Olympian who competed in 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. In the first few years at the club he was competing in breaststroke. During his time at the club his best results were quite average, despite his big talent. The main reason for that was that he was swimming breaststroke, a stroke that was not his natural. He left the club at year 2007.

In April 2007 Stevanović made a move to swimming club Vračar, based in Belgrade's municipality Vračar.[2] That proved to be a great move, since he started making progress really fast. His new coach, Nikola Mirčetić, has changed his strokes to freestyle and butterfly, which proved to be his natural strokes. He started winning medals in almost every race he was competing in. The best year of his career was 2009. During that year Stevanović became Serbian vice champion in 50m butterfly, and was also 3rd in 50m freestyle on Serbian National Junior Championships.[3] Besides that, he has won many medals on many important swim meets both in Serbia, and abroad.[1] He was always champion of Belgrade in his strokes. In 2011, due to problems with spinal disc herniation he was forced to retire from competitive swimming.

In 2017, Stevanović made his return to swimming, and started competing in Masters swimming events. In August 2017 he was participant in 2017 FINA World Masters Championships in Budapest.[4] He was a member of Serbian relay team in 4x50m freestyle that finished in 7th position.[5]

In 2018, he competed at the 2018 European Masters Swimming Championships in Kranj, Slovenia. He was in a Serbian relay team that won the 4th place in the 4x50m medley relay, in which he was swimming freestyle.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Luka Stevanović statistics on Swimrankings". swimrankings.net. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "Swimming Club Vračar". pkvracar.org.rs. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Serbian Junior Championships 2009". serbia-swim.org.rs. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "17th FINA World masters championships". fina.org. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "17th FINA World masters championships results - 4x50m freestyle". mastersbudapest2017.microplustiming.com. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  6. ↑ "16th LEN European Masters Swimming Championships results - 4x50m medley". emc2018.microplustiming.com. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
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