Milan Trajković ( sr, Милан Трајковић, el, Μίλαν Τράικοβιτς, born 17 March 1992 in

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) is a Serbian-born Cypriot athlete specialising in the sprint hurdles. He has won two gold medals at the

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Biography

Trajković was raised in the Serbian town of

but emigrated with his family to Cyprus at the age of nine with the end of SFR of Yugoslavia as a result of the

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. At the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

, he qualified for the final of Men's 110 metres hurdles with times of 13.41 seconds and 13.31 in the semi-finals.Olympic Games Rio 2016
/ref> With this qualification, Trajkovic became the first Cypriot athlete to qualify for this event at the Olympic Games. Milan Trajkovic by Selene Alexia

His personal bests are 13.25 seconds in the

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(0.0 m/s, London 2017) and 7.51 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles (

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, 2018). Both are current

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Competition record

¹Disqualified in the final

References

1992 births Living people People from Surdulica Sportspeople from Pčinja District Naturalized citizens of Cyprus Cypriot people of Serbian descent Cypriot male hurdlers Serbian emigrants to Cyprus Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Cyprus Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Cyprus Serb diaspora sportspeople Yugoslav Wars refugees World Athletics Championships athletes for Cyprus European Athletics Indoor Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Cyprus Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games European Games silver medalists for Cyprus European Games medalists in athletics {{Cyprus-athletics-bio-stub