Aleksandar Karakašević
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| Full name | Aleksandar Karakašević | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  FR Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro Serbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 9, 1975 Zemun, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing style | Left-handed, All round player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aleksandar Karakašević (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Каракашевић; born December 9, 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 on 2011 European Championship. One of his greatest result achieved in USA is his victory at the US Open Championship, July 2007, where he established himself as a world class athlete, winning the tournament title for the 3rd time by defeating 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]
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[]
- Bronze medal on 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 on 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 on 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 on 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[]
- TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen
- STK Partizan
- STK Unirea Uzdin
- SV Plüderhausen
- STK Crvena Zvezda
- UCAM Cartagena TM
References[]
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- ^ "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). Retrieved 2021-11-20.
External links[]
- Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at the International Table Tennis Federation
- "Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC at old.ittf.com". Archived from the original on 2017-01-11. Retrieved 2018-06-24.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.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- Aleksandar Karakasevic at the International Olympic Committee
- Aleksandar Karakasevic at Olympics.com
- Aleksandar Karakašević at Olympedia
- Aleksandar Karakašević at the Olimpijski Komitet Srbije (in Serbian)
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Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- People from Zemun
- Sportspeople from Belgrade
- Serbian male table tennis players
- Olympic table tennis players of Serbia
- Olympic table tennis players of Serbia and Montenegro
- Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- European Games competitors for Serbia
- Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games
- European champions for Serbia
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Yugoslavia
- Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Serbia
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Serbia
- Mediterranean Games medalists in table tennis
- Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games
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