Milivoj Karakašević (30 July 1948 – 26 March 2022) was a Serbian international
table tennis
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player who competed for
Yugoslavia
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in the 1970s and 1980s.
Table tennis career
With the Yugoslav men's team, he won
gold
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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.
In the
World Table Tennis Championships
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he won a bronze medal in 1971 and a silver medal in 1975 in the team event for Yugoslavia.
Personal life
His son is the Serbian table tennis champion
Aleksandar Karakašević
Aleksandar Karakašević ( sr-cyr, Александар Каракашевић; born 9 December 1975) is a Serbian table tennis player. His powerful backhand has helped him win against some of the top players in the world. He won a bronze medal a ...
.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is ...
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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists
Results of individual events
The tables below are medalists of individual events (men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed).
Men's singles
Medal table
Women's singles
The champion of women's singles in 1937 was declared ...
References
External links
Table Tennis guide profile of Karakašević
1948 births
2022 deaths
Yugoslav table tennis players
People from Zemun
Sportspeople from Belgrade
Serbian male table tennis players
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