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Serbian sport shooter (born 1965)
Jasna ?ekari?
(
Serbian Cyrillic
:
?асна Шекари?
; born 17 December 1965) is a
Serbian
sport shooter, considered as one of the most successful female shooters in ISSF history.
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She has won a total of five Olympic medals: one gold, three silvers and one bronze.
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She has also won three World Championship gold medals in the
10 m air pistol
, in addition to five European Championship gold medals she won in the 10 m air pistol and 25 m pistol. In 1992, she lost the Olympic gold medal to
Marina Logvinenko
despite having the same score. She is one of only six shooters (by 2012) to compete in
at least seven Olympic Games
.
Personal life
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She was born in
Belgrade
,
SR Serbia
,
SFR Yugoslavia
and grew up in
Osijek
,
SR Croatia
, then part of Yugoslavia, where she began to practice shooting. In the school competitions, she first competed with a rifle and achieved a decent place at the regional championships. She later began to use a pistol. In 1990 she moved to Belgrade, where she had a successful year in sports at a private level. She is divorced and has two children, Lea (Леа) and Luka (Лука).
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Career
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She was named several times was the best sportswoman and shooter in the
SFR Yugoslavia
,
Croatia
,
FR Yugoslavia
,
Serbia and Montenegro
and
Serbia
. In 1988 and 1994 she received a
Golden Badge
of the
Sport
award for
Yugoslavia
's best athlete.
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In the 2008 games, she was the country's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies. Jasna is listed in the golden book of sport shooting as the only shooter participating at five Olympic Games while being a finalist in all five.
Despite having never changed nationality, ?ekari? has competed under four flags at her six Olympics. She competed for
Yugoslavia
at the 1988 Olympics. In 1992, since Yugoslavia was under UN sanctions, she (and fifty other Serbians, Montenegrins, and Macedonians) competed as
Independent Olympic Participants
. Her next two Olympics were under the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the red star was removed from SFRY's flag). In 2004 she competed representing
Serbia and Montenegro
, which had the same flag as FR Yugoslavia, and she finally competed for
Serbia
in 2008.
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Another athlete to compete under four different flags is Serbian-American table tennis player
Ilija Lupulesku
, but he changed nationality in the process.
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Olympic results
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See also
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References
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Sportsman of The Year
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Men's Team of The Year
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Women's Team of The Year
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Team Sport Athlete of The Year
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Young Athlete of The Year
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Coach of The Year
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Yugoslav era
(1952?90)
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Since independence
(1991?present)
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