Milivoj Karakašević (30 July 1948 – 26 March 2022[1]) was a Serbian international table tennis player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s.[2]
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Full name | Milivoj Karakašević | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Serbian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia | 30 July 1948||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 26 March 2022 Belgrade, Serbia | (aged 73)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Table tennis career
editWith the Yugoslav men's team, he won gold at the 1976 European Championships. In addition he won two silver medals and three bronze medals; in 1970 and 1972, he won silver in the team event and in 1974 and 1982, he won bronze, while he also won bronze in doubles in 1978 with Zoran Kosanović.[3]
In the World Table Tennis Championships he won a bronze medal in 1971 and a silver medal in 1975 in the team event for Yugoslavia.[4]
Personal life
editHis son is the Serbian table tennis champion Aleksandar Karakašević.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Preminuo Milivoj Karakašević legenda stonog tenisa (in Serbian)
- ^ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
- ^ "Milivoj Karasevic." Table Tennis Guide. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 August 2017.
- ^ "Table Tennis World Championship medal winners". Sports123.
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