Aleksandar Karakašević (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Каракашевић; born 9 December 1975) is a Serbian table tennis player. His powerful backhand has helped him win against some of the top players in the world. He won a bronze medal at the 2011 European Championship. One of his greatest results achieved in USA is his victory at the US Open Championship in July 2007, where he established himself as a world class athlete, winning the tournament title for the 3rd time by defeating Kurashima Yosuke from Japan with the result of 4:0. In 2020 at the age of 45 he is still playing in German Bundesliga (first German division) representing TTC ZUGBRÜCKE GRENZAU.[1]
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| Full name | Aleksandar Karakašević | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro Serbia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 December 1975 Zemun, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing style | Left-handed, All round player | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karakašević competed at the 1996, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 Summer Olympics.[2]
On 20 November 2021 it was announced that Karakašević had joined the Serbian Progressive Party.[3]
His father, Milivoj Karakašević was a Yugoslav table tennis player.
Career Highlights and Accomplishments
edit- Bronze medal at European Championship – Singles
- European Champion – Mixed Doubles (four times)
- US Open Champion – Singles (three times)
- US Open Champion – Doubles
- Second place in Europe – Mixed Doubles
- Third place in Pro-Tour final – Men's Doubles- (twice)
- German Open Champion – Men's Doubles
- Brazilian Open Champion – Doubles
- Brazilian Open Champion – Teams
- Mediterranean games Champion – Men's Doubles
- Second place in Mediterranean games – Doubles (twice)
- Second place – Netherlands Open – Men's Doubles
- Third place – Qatar Open – Men's Doubles (twice)
- Balkan Champion (six times)
- Second finisher in European Trials for the Olympic games
- Third place in Junior Europeans (four times)
- Yugoslavian Champion – Singles (three times)
- Yugoslavian Champion – Men's Doubles (five times)
- Yugoslavian Champion – Mixed Doubles (five times)
- Yugoslavian Champion – Teams (four times)
Clubs
edit- TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
- STK Partizan
- STK Unirea Uzdin
- SV Plüderhausen
- STK Crvena Zvezda
- UCAM Cartagena TM
References
edit- ^ "Killerspin Player Page". killerspin.com.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Aleksandar Karakašević". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2009-04-18. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- ^ "Александар Каракашевић приступио Српској напредној странци". Српска напредна странка (in Serbian (Cyrillic script)). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
External links
edit- Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at World Table Tennis
- "Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at old.ittf.com". Archived from the original on 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - "Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at ittfranking.com". Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
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- "Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at old.ittf.com". Archived from the original on 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2018-06-24.
- Aleksandar Karakašević at Olympics.com
- Aleksandar Karakašević at Olympic.org (archived)
- Aleksandar Karakašević at Olympedia
- Aleksandar Karakašević at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (former profile) (in Serbian)
