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	Bronze 591+95	6th 583+93	6th 580+100.4	17th 577	9th 579	21st 578	18th 579
10 metre air pistol	Gold 389+100.5	Silver 389+97.4	4th 384+103.1	Silver 388+98.5	Silver 387+96.3	6th 384+96.9	& —

See also

• List of athletes with the most appearances at Olympic Games
• List of flag bearers for Serbia at the Olympics
• 2008 Summer Olympics national flag bearers

References

1. Olympic results
2. http://www.story.rs/vesti/svet-poznatih/6844-razvela-se-jasna-sekaric.html
3. DSL Sport awards
4. Ilija Lupulesku sports biography

External links

• Šekarić's profile at ISSF NEWS
• Jasna Šekarić Official Internet Site