Luka Bošković
Serbian long jumper
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Luka Bošković (born 6 July 2006) is a Serbian long jumper. He won the silver medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships, and has won senior Serbian national titles both outdoors and indoors.[1]
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| Born | 6 July 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | Long jump: 8.23 m (2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
In June 2024, Bošković won the senior long jump title at the Serbian Athletics Championships in Kraljevo, with a wind-assisted 7.99 metres (+2.1 m/s).[2] He won the silver medal at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru with a jump of 7.93 metres to finish runner-up to Roko Farkas.[3][4]
At the 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland, Bošković won the bronze medal behind Petr Meindlschmid and Daniele Inzoli with Boškovic and Inzoli both jumping 7.69m but with Inzoli taking silver by virtue of a superior second best jump.[5]
In February 2026, Bošković won the long jump title at the Serbian Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade.[6] In June 2026, Boskovic set a new lifetime best of 8.14m in the long jump in Kraljevo, Serbia, before jumping a new personal best of 8.19m (-0.4 m/s) in the final round of the 2026 Balkan Athletics Championships in Volos, Greece, to win the silver medal behind Miltiadis Tentoglou and ahead of Bozhidar Sarâboyukov.[7][8] Competing at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, on 26 June, he improved his personal best to 8.23m in the long jump to finish second behind Anvar Anvarov.[9]
