Željko Dimitrijević
Appearance
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Personal information | |
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Birth name | Zeljko Dimitrijevic |
Nationality | Serbian |
Born | Ribare kod Zagubice - Petrovac na Mlavi | 4 January 1971
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Club throw |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 29.96 WR |
Medal record |
Željko Dimitrijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Жељко Димитријевић), (born January 4, 1971 in Petrovac na Mlavi) is a gold medal winning Paralympian athlete from Serbia. He competes in seated throws in the F51 classification, a class for quadriplegics. He is the current world record holder.
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics held in London he won a gold medal in athletics, broke a world record and became first Paralympic gold medalist for Serbia.
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- Paralympic athletes of Serbia
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- Paralympic gold medalists for Serbia
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- People from Petrovac, Serbia
- World record holders in Paralympic athletics
- People with tetraplegia
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Disabled track and field athletes
- Serbian people with disabilities
- Sportsmen with disabilities
- Male club throwers
- Serbian male athletes
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- World Para Athletics Championships winners
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