Jasna Šekarić

Jasna Šekarić

Medal record
Women's Shooting
Olympic Games
1988 Seoul 10 m Air Pistol
1992 Barcelona 10 m Air Pistol
2000 Sydney 10 m Air Pistol
2004 Athens 10 m Air Pistol
1988 Seoul 25 m Pistol
World Championships
1987 Budapest 10 m Air pistol
1990 Moscow 10 m Air pistol
1994 Milan 10 m Air pistol
1989 Sarajevo 10 m Air pistol
European Championships
1986 Espoo 10 m Air pistol
1991 Manchester 10 m Air pistol
1992 Budapest 10 m Air pistol
1996 Budapest 10 m Air pistol
2005 Belgrade 25 m Pistol
1989 Copenhagen 10 m Air pistol
1989 Zagreb 25 m Pistol
1990 Arnhem 10 m Air pistol
1994 Strasbourg 10 m Air pistol
1999 Arnhem 10 m Air pistol
2001 Zagreb 25 m Pistol
Mediterranean Games
1991 Athens 25 m Pistol
1991 Athens 10 m Air pistol
1997 Bari 25 m Pistol
2005 Almería 25 m Pistol
2009 Pescara 25 m Pistol
1997 Bari 10 m Air pistol
2009 Pescara 10 m Air Pistol
2013 Mersin 25 m Pistol

Jasna Šekarić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јасна Шекарић, née Brajković / Брајковић; born 17 December 1965) is a Serbian sport shooter. She has won a total of five Olympic medals: one gold, three silvers and one bronze.[1] She has also won three World Championship gold medals in the 10 m air pistol. In 1992, she lost the Olympic gold medal to Marina Logvinenko despite having the same score. She is one of only six shooters (by 2012) to compete in at least seven Olympic Games.

Personal life

She was born in Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia and grew up in Osijek, SR Croatia, then part of Yugoslavia, where she began to practice shooting. In the school competitions, she first competed with a rifle and achieved a decent place at the regional championships. She later began to use a pistol. In 1990 she moved to Belgrade, where she had a successful year in sports at a private level. She is divorced and has two children, Lea (Леа) and Luka (Лука).[2]

Career

She was named several times was the best sportswoman and shooter in the SFR Yugoslavia, Croatia, FRY, Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia. In 1988 and 1994 she received a Golden Badge of the Sport award for Yugoslavia's best athlete.[3] In the 2008 games, she was the country's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies. Jasna is listed in the golden book of sport shooting as the only shooter participating at five Olympic Games while being a finalist in all five.

Despite never having changed nationality, Šekarić has competed under four flags at her six Olympics. She competed for Yugoslavia at the 1988 Olympics. In 1992, since Yugoslavia was under UN sanctions, she (and fifty other Serbians, Montenegrins, and Macedonians) competed as Independent Olympic Participants. Her next three Olympics were under the flag of Serbia and Montenegro and she finally competed for Serbia in 2008.[1] Another athlete to compete under four different flags is Serbian-American table tennis player Ilija Lupulesku, but he changed nationality in the process.[4]

Olympic results

Event 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
25 metre pistol 3rd Bronze
591+95
6th
583+93
6th
580+100.4
17th
577
9th
579
21st
578
18th
579
10 metre air pistol 1st Gold
389+100.5
2nd Silver
389+97.4
4th
384+103.1
2nd Silver
388+98.5
2nd Silver
387+96.3
6th
384+96.9
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Awards
Preceded by
Mateja Svet
Igor Miladinović
The Best Athlete of Yugoslavia
1988 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1994 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Succeeded by
Dragomir Bećanović
Aleksandar Đorđević
Preceded by
Mateja Svet
Yugoslav Sportswoman of the Year
1988
Succeeded by
Mateja Svet
Preceded by
Biserka Perman
Croatian Sportswoman of the Year
1986-1989
Succeeded by
Biljana Petrović
Olympic Games
Preceded by
Dejan Bodiroga
(for  Serbia and Montenegro)
Flagbearer for  Serbia
Beijing 2008
Succeeded by
Novak Djokovic
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