Serbian athletes won eight medals in Brazil, including two golds, two bronze medals and four silvers, representing the best ever performance of the country’s team at the Olympics.
The athletes were first greeted by dozens of citizens, along with their friends and relatives, at Nikola Tesla Airport, where impressions were offered by lady taekwondo fighters, the women’s volleyball team, and the men’s basketball and water polo teams.
The series of Serbian medals in Rio began with gold for wrestler Davor Stefanek, after which the men’s water polo team also became Olympic champions. Silver medals were won by 18-year-old Tijana Bogdanović in taekwondo, kayakers Milenko Zorić and Marko Tomićević, the women’s volleyball team and the men’s basketball team, while bronze medals went to long jumper Ivana Španović and the women’s basketball team.
Of the 103 representatives competing in the Rio Games, in the end, fifty-four Serbian athletes returned with medals!
