Zoran Gajić ( sr-cyrl, Зоран Гајић; born 28 December 1958) is a Serbian volleyball coach serving as minister of sports since 2022. As a volleyball coach, he coached

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, and

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and Russia men's national volleyball teams. From 1980 to 1988, Gajić was the head coach in the Volleyball training camp of the Serbian Province of

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and the head coach of the junior team of the Province of Vojvodina. From 1980 to 1983, he organised and supervised groups of young players aged 9 to 11. As the head coach of the senior men’s national team of Yugoslavia, he claimed nine medals – including a historic Olympic gold at the Sydney 2000 Games, followed by a European Championship title a year later in

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Czech Republic. Born in Pančevo, his coaching career, he started in OK Mladost from

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, then he coached

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, A.C. Orestiada, Olympiacos S.C. Piraeus, A.E.K. Athens, Arçelik,

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.With the national volleyball team of

, he won a gold medal at the

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and a bronze medal in 1996 at Atlanta. His other international victories include a silver medal in the 1998

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and a gold medal in the 2001 European Championship. He won 3 more medals at the European Championships. In 2011 with

, for whom played 5 Serbian players won FIVB Women's Club World Championship in

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. He was re-elected as president of the Volleyball Federation of Serbia in 2020 by the decision of 44 out of 50 delegates at the regular, electoral Assembly of the Volleyball Association of Serbia.

References

External links

Gajić pravi izbor za selektora odbojkaša

* ttp://www.b92.net/sport/odbojka/vesti.php?yyyy=2011&mm=07&dd=07&nav_id=523978 Rabita
gold medal

Nikola Grbić: Daj boze da budem ko Gajić

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gajic, Zoran 1958 births Living people Sportspeople from Pančevo Olympiacos S.C. coaches Serbian volleyball coaches Coaches of Russia men's national volleyball team Independent politicians in Serbia Government ministers of Serbia