Sreten Mirković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Сретен Мирковић; 15 February 1958 – 28 September 2016) was a Serbian

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. He had been referred to as a "legend of Serbian boxing."

Career

In 1979, as a member of the Mladi Radnik Sports Society from

Požarevac Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čačalica (208m). As of 2011, ...

, Mirković won the silver medal at the

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Coaching

Mirković was a coach in the

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Boxing Club and was a coach of the Mladi Radnik Boxing Club in Požarevac.

Death

Mirković died on 28 September 2016 after a lengthy battle with lung cancer. He is interred in the

Old Cemetery.

References

1958 births 2016 deaths Sportspeople from Pristina Sportspeople from Požarevac Serbian Romani people Romani sportspeople Serbian male boxers Welterweight boxers Yugoslav male boxers Deaths from lung cancer Deaths from cancer in Serbia Burials in Požarevac Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Yugoslavia Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing Competitors at the 1983 Mediterranean Games {{Serbia-boxing-bio-stub