Milan Aleksić

Milan Aleksić

Milan Aleksić at 2012 Olympics
Personal information
Born	13 May 1986 Belgrade, Serbia
Medal record Men's Water Polo Competitor for  Serbia and Montenegro  Serbia Olympic Games 2012 London Team World Championship 2009 Rome Team 2015 Kazan Team 2011 Shanghai Team European Championship 2012 Eindhoven Team 2014 Budapest Team 2016 Belgrade Team 2010 Zagreb Team FINA World League 2007 Berlin Team 2010 Niš Team 2011 Firenze Team 2013 Chelyabinsk Team 2015 Bergamo Team 2009 Podgorica Team FINA World Cup 2010 Oradea Team Mediterranean Games 2009 Pescara Team Universiade 2005 İzmir Team

Milan Aleksić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Алексић; born 13 May 1986) is a Serbian water polo player. He is currently playing for Szolnoki Vizilabda SC, in Hungary. He also plays for the Serbian National team. He has won the 2009 World Championship and the 2015 World Championship as well as the 2012 European Championship and the 2016 European Championship with Serbia. His most notable achievements in a club competition are the LEN Euroleague and the LEN Supercup which he won in 2011 with Partizan Raiffeisen.

Club career

Partizan Raiffeisen

On 22 October 2011 Aleksić scored a goal in the first round of the Euroleague Group, in an 8–9 loss to Szeged Beton VE. On 9 November Aleksić scored his second goal of the tournament in the second round of the Euroleague Group in the 10–10 tie against TEVA-Vasas-UNIQA. On 26 November Aleksić scored his third goal of the tournament in a 9–6 Euroleague third round win over ZF Eger in Belgrade. Aleksić scored two goals on 14 December in the fourth round of the Euroleague, in the 12–8 second defeat to ZF Eger. On 8 February Milan Aleksić scored two goals for Partizan in the fifth round of the Euroleague Group in which his team won without much problem 9–5 against TEVA-Vasas-UNIQA. On 26 February Aleksić scored his last goal in the final round of the Euroleague Group, in which his team lost by 9–8 to Szeged Beton VE and dropped out of the competition. On 1 March he scored a goal against VK Vojvodina in a 10–9 win in the "A League" fourth round.

Clubs

• Szolnoki Vizilabda SC^[1]
• Partizan Raiffeisen

National career

Aleksić scored his first goal at the European Championship on 17 January 2012 against Germany in Serbia's second game which the Serbs won by 13–12. On 19 January 2012, in their third game of the tournament, Aleksić scored his second goal in a difficult 15–12 victory against the defending European champions, Croatia.

100th match for the Serbia national team

On 23 January, Aleksić played his 100th official match for his national team in the last round of group A scoring a goal, in which Serbia lost to Montenegro with 11–7.

On 27 January Aleksić scored two goals in a semifinal 12–8 victory over Italy. Milan Aleksić won the 2012 European Championship with Serbia on 29 January. He scored a goal in the final against Montenegro which his national team won by 9–8.^[2] This was his first gold medal at the European Championships.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Aleksić was part of the Serbian team which won the bronze medal.^[3]

Honours

Club

VK Partizan

• National Championship of Serbia (5): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11
• National Cup of Serbia (6): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
• LEN Euroleague: 2010–11
• LEN Supercup: 2011
• Eurointer League : 2010, 2011

References

1. "Milan Aleksic signs with Szolnok". Waterpoloworld International. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
2. http://www.waterpoloworld.com/News/tabid/169/ArticleId/1897/news.aspx
3. "Milan Aleksić Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2016-02-25.

External links

• Milan Aleksić
• Official website (Serbian) (English)