Serbian para table tennis players Ana Zelen and Sanja Bogunović won a silver medal at the European Championship, which is being held in the Swedish city of Helsingborg, in the doubles competition in class WD 5.
In the duel for the gold medal, they were defeated by the Italians Carlotta Ragazzini and Giada Rossi with 3:0. Only in the first set were our players able to match the favoured Italians, who easily won the next two sets.
Before this duel, Ana and Sanja defeated the Slovakians Alenka Kanova and Eva Matovčikova with 3:1 in the fight for second place, and at the start, they defeated their teammates Marina Minić and Željana Ristić with 3:2. Marina and Željana eventually took third place. Only gold and silver were awarded in this class.
This is the third medal for Serbia at the championship of the Old Continent; the previous two were won by Mitar Palikuća in class T 4-5, and Palikuća and Mladen Ćirić in the doubles competition in class MD 8.
As a reminder, Palikuća won the individual bronze after losing in the semi-finals to the Czech Filip Naházel, after a great drama, with 3:2. Mitar and Mladen missed the final only after a great fight with the French Florian Merrien and Emeric Martin and a 3:2 defeat.
In the doubles in class MD 4, Goran Perlić and Boris Stoiljković were defeated in the quarterfinals 3:0 by the British Christopher Ryan and Thomas Matthews. In the mix in class HD7, Mladen Ćirić and Kristina Arančić lost in the round of 16 to the Germans Nicolai Sommer and Jana Spegel, after a great fight with 3:2, while Nemanja Ćurić and Ana Zelen in the same class were stopped in the quarterfinals by the French Florian Merrien and Flora Vautier with 3:0. In the doubles, Kristina Arančić and Zorica Popadić in class WD 10 failed to pass the group. Goran Perlić and Željana Ristić took fifth place in the mix in class HD 4, with four losses.
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