Miloš Ćuk ( sr-cyr, Милош Ћук; born 21 December 1990) is a Serbian

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player who plays for Radnički. His most notable achievement with the Serbia national water polo team are the golden medal from the 2012 European Championship held in Eindhoven and the silver medal from the 2011 World Championship in Shanghai. In 2011, he won with Partizan Raiffeisen the National Championship and National Cup of Serbia, LEN Euroleague, LEN Supercup and Eurointer League.

Club career

Partizan Raiffeisen

On 9 November Ćuk scored four goals in the second round of the Euroleague Group in the 10–10 tie against TEVA-Vasas-UNIQA. On 26 November he scored two goals in a 9–6 Euroleague third round win over ZF Eger in

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. He scored a goal on 14 December in the fourth round of the Euroleague, in the 12–8 second defeat to ZF Eger. On 8 February Ćuk scored three goals for Partizan in the fifth round of the Euroleague Group in which his team won without much problem 9–5 against TEVA-Vasas-UNIQA. On 17 February Ćuk scored his first two goals of the Serbian National Championship season, in the third round of the "A League", in an easy 14–2 win against ŽAK. On 1 March Ćuk scored two goals against VK Vojvodina in a 10–9 win in the "A League" fourth round. On 3 March in the fifth round of the "A League", Ćuk scored three goals in a 9–4 home win against VK Beograd.

National career

On 19 January, in the third game at the European Championships, Ćuk scored his first two goals of the tournament in a big and difficult victory against the defending European champions

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. The final result was 15–12 for his national team. On 21 January in the fourth match, Ćuk was on the scorers sheet with one goal for his national team in a routine victory against

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14–5. On 27 January Ćuk scored a goal in a semifinal 12–8 victory over

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. On 29 January, Ćuk won the European Championship with his

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beating in the final

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by 9–8. This was his first medal with the national team in European Championships.

Honours

Club

;VK Partizan * National Championship of Serbia (3): 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 * National Cup of Serbia (3): 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12 * LEN Champions League (1): 2010–11 * LEN Super Cup (1): 2011 * Eurointer League (2): 2010, 2011 Eger * National Cup of Hungary (1): 2014–15 Szolnok * National Cup of Hungary (1): 2017–18 HAVK Mladost * National Cup of Croatia (1): 2019–20 *

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(2): 2018–19, 2019–20 VK Radnički Kragujevac * National Cup of Serbia (1): 2021–22

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