Dejan Vukčević
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Serbia and Montenegro (till 2007)
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| Native name | Дејан Вукчевић | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | Montenegro (since 2007) Serbia and Montenegro (till 2007) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 9, 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fighting ju-jitsu, judo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | +94 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | DK Zeta Podgorica | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Miloš Ašanin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dejan Vukčević (Serbian: Дејан Вукчевић, born 9 December 1982) is a Montenegrin martial artist who represents his native country Montenegro in sport jujitsu and at the amateur level in judo.
He is by profession a member of a Special Anti-terrorist Unit.[1][2] On 11 December 2018, upon winning the 2018 World Seniors Championship in Malmo, Sweden, he was awarded the gold medal by the then sports minister Nikola Janović.[3]
Nicknamed Golijat[4] for his huge frame, he began with judo as a child. However, he has never reached the highest international level in this Olympic sport.[5]
In 2009, his home city Podgorica hosted the European championships in sport jujitsu, and he was part of the Montenegrin ju-jitsu team for the first time at age 27. Under coach Miloš Ašanin he soon became one of the best jutsukas in the heavyweight category.[6]
He is a three-time individual world champion – 2015, 2017, and 2018 in discipline fighting system, +94 kg weight category.
