Aleksa Kovačević (1 February 1910 – 22 August 1979) was a Canadian

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

. He competed in the men's shot put at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

, representing Yugoslavia.

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1910 births 1979 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Bosnia and Herzegovina male shot putters Yugoslav male shot putters Olympic athletes for Yugoslavia People from the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sportspeople from Nevesinje 20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina sportsmen {{BosniaHerzegovina-athletics-bio-stub