Nenad Žugaj
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Medal record | ||
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Men's Greco-Roman wrestling | ||
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World Championships | ||
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2010 Moscow | 84 kg |
European Championships | ||
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2013 Tbilisi | 84 kg |
Mediterranean Games | ||
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2009 Pescara | 84 kg |
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2013 Mersin | 84 kg |
Nenad Žugaj (born April 19, 1983, in Zagreb) is a male wrestler from Croatia. He had started wrestling at the age of ten.
He attended a sports gymnasium. After graduation, he has been studying at the Faculty of Kinesiology and in 2007 became professor of kinesiology.
In the same year he enrolled in officer school, becoming a lieutenant of the Croatian Armed Forces.
In senior competition, Nenad wrestles in the 84 kg Greco-Roman category. His first club was the wrestling club “Hrvatski dragovoljac“ and he is now a member of wrestling club, "Lika".
His best achievement, so far, is a bronze medal at the 2010 World Championship in Moscow. He has also won a Mediterranean Games gold medal in 2009 in Pescara. He has also won a bronze at the European Championships and a bronze at the Mediterranean Games.
His twin brother Neven Žugaj is also a Greco-Roman wrestler competing for Croatia.
In Semifinals at the European Games 2015 he was eliminated by Davit Chakvetadze of Russia.
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- Living people
- 1983 births
- Sportspeople from Zagreb
- Croatian male sport wrestlers
- Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic wrestlers of Croatia
- Twin sportspeople
- Twin people from Croatia
- Croatian army officers
- European Games competitors for Croatia
- Wrestlers at the 2015 European Games
- Croatian martial arts biography stubs
- European sport wrestler stubs
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Croatia
- Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling