Željko Dimitrijević ( sr-Cyrl, Жељко Димитријевић; born 4 January 1971) is a gold medal-winning Paralympian athlete from

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. He competes in seated throws in the F51 classification, a class for quadriplegics. He is the current world record holder in club throw.

Career

At the 2012 Summer Paralympics held in

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, he won a gold medal in club throw, broke a world record and became first Paralympic gold medalist for Serbia. At the

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, Dimitrijević won another gold medal in the same event with new world record (29.96 m). At the 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships, Dimitrijević won gold medal in club throw in the F51 classification with a new world record of 34.71 m.

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