Marko Tomićević
Serbian canoeist
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Marko Tomićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Томићевић, born 19 April 1990) is a Serbian sprint canoer. A two-time Olympian, Tomićević won an Olympic silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event in 2016. A year later he won gold at the World Championships in the same event. He is also the world record holder in the K-2 1000 m event, set at the 2018 Canoe Sprint European Championships. For all three successes he shared a boat with teammate Milenko Zorić.
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| Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 April 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Serbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | KK Bečej | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Tomićević took part in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he competed in the men's K-1 1000 metres, finishing 10th overall.[1]
At the 2014 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, Tomićević partnered with compatriot Vladimir Torubarov in the K–2 1000 metres event, winning bronze medals, the first of the championships for Serbia.[2]
He won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Milan with Milenko Zorić.[3]
In June 2016, he and Zorić finished third behind the boats of Germany and Hungary at the 2016 Canoe Sprint European Championships, held in Moscow.[4] Their bronze medals were later upgraded to silver after Hungarian canoeists Tibor Hufnágel and Bence Dombvári were disqualified and stripped of their awards, following Dombvári testing positive for a doping offence.[5]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Tomićević and Zorić won silver medals in the men's K-2 1000 metres event, finishing second to German pair Max Rendschmidt and Marcus Gross by less than 0.2 seconds.[6] He also competed in the K-4 1000 metres in Rio as part of the Serbia team, which finished 8th.[1]
Tomićević and Zorić became world champions in August 2017: at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, they finished the K-2 1000 metres final in a time of 3 minutes, 8.647 seconds, more than two seconds ahead of the second-placed Slovak boat.[7] In December of that year the pair were named as joint winners of the Sportsman of the Year award in Serbia.[8]
Tomićević and Zorić set a new world record in the final of the 2018 Canoe Sprint European Championships in the K-2 1000 metres event on 9 June 2018, held in Belgrade, as they won the European gold medal for the first time.[9] They were congratulated on Twitter by President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić and Prime Minister Ana Brnabić for their success.[10]
