{"id":194759,"date":"2025-12-08T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=194759"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:24:21","slug":"respect-mitar-serbian-para-table-tennis-player-wins-two-medals-at-the-european-championship-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/respect-mitar-serbian-para-table-tennis-player-wins-two-medals-at-the-european-championship-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"RESPECT, MITAR! Serbian para table tennis player wins two medals at the European Championship! (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Serbian national para table tennis team won three medals at the European Championship in the Swedish city of Helsingborg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ana Zelen and Sanja Bogunovi\u0107 won silver in doubles, while Mitar Paliku\u0107a claimed two bronze medals\u2014one in singles and one in doubles with Mladen \u0106iri\u0107. Before departing for the continental championship, both head coach Zlatko Kesler and Serbia\u2019s top hope, Mitar Paliku\u0107a, were expecting at least one medal. However, they returned from Sweden with three medals, continuing their streak of podium finishes at major competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs I said before leaving for the European Championship, since we were weakened by the absence of Borislava Peri\u0107 Rankovi\u0107 and Nada Mati\u0107, who retired from active play, we were hoping for at least one medal. Ana Zelen and I were the main contenders for a medal in our team. But it was risky to predict anything, so we knew that even one medal would be a success. In the end, we won three medals, which is a great achievement for us,\u201d said Paliku\u0107a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-7-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-7-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-7-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-7-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-7-800x600.png 800w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-7-1200x900.png 1200w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-7.png 1248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The member of Novi Sad\u2019s club Spin lost in the semifinals of class 4\u20135 to Czech player Filip Nahazel after a tough battle, 3\u20132. The same score occurred in doubles, where Mitar and Mladen \u0106iri\u0107 were defeated in the MD 8 class semifinal, also after a fierce fight, 3\u20132, by French players Florian Merien and Emeric Martin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI repeated the success from the previous European Championship, where I also won bronze in singles and doubles. Overall, I\u2019m satisfied with the two new medals, especially for the national team but also for myself, as well as for the medal won by Ana and Sanja. Still, I have to say there\u2019s some regret about missing the finals in both events. Both semifinal matches went to the fifth set, and in both I lost 12:10 in the final set. It came down to tiny details in my singles match as well as in doubles with Mladen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"879\" src=\"http:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-8.png 900w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-8-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-8-768x750.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Serbian para table tennis players will now take a short break before resuming training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re training with reduced intensity, and before New Year we\u2019ll take a well-deserved break lasting just under a month. Next year the World Championship in Thailand awaits us. The competition will be tougher, since in my case categories 4 and 5 are merged, just like at the European Championship. I will probably finish this year ranked third in the world in categories 4 and 5. Qualifications for the World Championship last until July next year. I hope to attend as many tournaments as possible and play well to qualify for the World Championship. 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Ana Zelen and Sanja Bogunovi\u0107 won silver in doubles, while Mitar Paliku\u0107a claimed two bronze medals\u2014one in singles and one in doubles with Mladen \u0106iri\u0107. Before departing for the continental championship, both head coach Zlatko [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":194763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2391,615,9952,9953,9954,91,113,2958],"class_list":["post-194759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-evropsko-prvenstvo","tag-medalje","tag-mitar-palikuca","tag-parastonoteniser","tag-reprezenetacija","tag-sport","tag-srbija","tag-svedska-2","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194811,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194759\/revisions\/194811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}