Damir Mikec
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Nationality | Serbian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Split, SFR Yugoslavia | 31 March 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Serbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10m Air pistol, 10m Air pistol mixed team, 50m Pistol | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | KSS "Policajac", Belgrade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Damir Mikec (Serbian Cyrillic: Дамир Микец; born 31 March 1984) is a Serbian sport shooter.
Biography[]
Mikec represented Serbia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. He earned his qualification by finishing 6th at the 2007 World Cup #1 Rifle, Pistol in Fort Benning, United States of America. In Beijing, Mikec reached the final in 50 metre pistol and finished 7th. In 10 metre air pistol he missed the final by a one-point margin and finished 13th.
Mikec won a silver medal in 50 metre pistol at the 2009 ISSF World Cup in Munich.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he came as world's number one at the world rank list, again competed in the 10 metre air pistol and the 50 metre pistol, finishing in 17th and 16th positions respectively.[1]
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he competed in the 10 metre air pistol finishing second, granting Serbia its first medal at the Games.
Personal life[]
Mikec is of paternal Slovene descent. His paternal grandparents hail from Novo Mesto, but due to his grandfather's engagement in the Yugoslav People's Army, his father was born in Bitola. His father was in the Army as well, and met his mother, a discus thrower, in Senta while located there at the time. Because of his older brothers Igor and Goran's respiratory problems, his family moved to Split–where he was born–due to the benefits of sea air and climate. After the outbreak of the Croatian War of Independence, his family moved to Herceg Novi. Finally, in 1997, his family moved to Petlovo Brdo, Belgrade, where he finished the last grade of primary school and started secondary school. After the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, he started training shooting at the urging of his mother and Srećko Pejović.[2]
He is married to Salvadoran sports shooter Melissa Pérez, whom he met in 2005. They married in 2011 in the Ružica Church. Despite plans for another wedding in El Salvador, the Catholic Church there would not agree on a compromise due to Mikec's Eastern Orthodox faith, unlike the Serbian Orthodox Church who did agree on a compromise due to Pérez's Roman Catholic faith. The couple have two children, a son Milan Ricardo (b. 2015) and Mia Vanessa (b. 2020).[2]
References[]
- ^ "Damir Mikec Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
- ^ a b Mikec, Damir (8 August 2021). "ŽIVOTNA PRIČA DAMIRA MIKECA: Na venčanju u Salvadoru od mene su tražili da menjam veru, na šta, naravno, nisam pristao". Kurir (in Serbian). Retrieved 8 August 2021.
External links[]
- 1984 births
- Sportspeople from Split, Croatia
- People from Herceg Novi
- Sportspeople from Belgrade
- Serbian people of Slovenian descent
- Serbian male sport shooters
- ISSF pistol shooters
- Olympic shooters of Serbia
- Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Shooters at the 2015 European Games
- European champions for Serbia
- European Games gold medalists for Serbia
- European Games medalists in shooting
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Serbia
- Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Serbia
- Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
- Competitors at the 2013 Mediterranean Games
- Universiade medalists in shooting
- Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting
- Universiade silver medalists for Serbia
- Shooters at the 2019 European Games
- European Games silver medalists for Serbia
- Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Serbia
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- European sport shooting biography stubs
- Serbian sportspeople stubs