Snežana Pantić (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Снежана Пантић; nee Perić; 18 June 1978 – 9 February 2022) was a Serbian professional
karate
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competitor and the most successful Serbian female karateka.
Biography
Born in
Zrenjanin
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,
SR Serbia
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,
SFR Yugoslavia
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, she resided in
Belgrade
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.
Pantić married
FK Partizan
Fudbalski klub Partizan ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Партизан, ; ), often referred to in English as Partizan Belgrade, is a Serbian professional Football club (association football), football club based in Belgrade. It forms ...
goalkeeper
Đorđe Pantić in 2006. They had a daughter, Marija "Manja" born 2007. Pantić was a member of Athlete Commission in World Karate Federation.
She died from breast cancer on 9 February 2022, at the age of 43.
Achievements
2006 results
* 1st place European Championships (Stavanger, Norway), open category
* 3rd place European Championships (Stavanger, Norway), team
* 3rd place World Championships (Tampere, Finland), open category
2005 results
* 1st place Mediterranean Games (Almería, Spain),-60 kg category
* 2nd place European championships (Tenerife, Spain) open category
* 1st place World Games (Duisburg, Germany) -60 kg category
2004 results
* 2nd place European Championships (Moscow, Russia) -60 kg category
* 3rd place European Championships (Moscow, Russia) open category
* 2nd place University World Championships (Belgrade, Serbia)
2003 results
* 2nd place European Championships, team, (Bremen, Germany)
* 1st place Yugoslavian Championships, open category
* 1st place European Club Championships with karate club "Dijamant" (Oviedo, Spain)
* 1st place Zagreb Karate Fest – Top Ten (open weight)
2002 results
* 1st place World Championships (Madrid, Spain), open category
* 2nd place European Championships (Tallinn, Estonia), team
* 3rd place Mediterranean Championships (Rijeka, Croatia) -60 kg category
* 3rd place University World Championships (Puebla, Mexico) -60 kg category
* 2nd place University World Championships (Puebla, Mexico), team
* 1st place European Club Championships, with karate club "Dijamant" (Giör, Hungary)
2001 results
* 2nd place European Club Championships, with karate club "Dijamant" (Istanbul, Turkey)
* 3rd place Mediterranean Games, (Tunis, Tunis), -60 kg category
2000 results
* 1st place Yugoslavian Championship, -60 kg category
* 2nd place University World Championship, Kyoto,
apan team
* 2nd place European Championships (Istanbul, Turkey) team
1999 results
* 1st place Yugoslavian Championships, -60 kg and open category
* 3rd place European Championships (Chalkida, Greece), -60 kg category
References
External links
Snežana Pantić's website*
1978 births
2022 deaths
Sportspeople from Zrenjanin
Serbian female karateka
European champions for Serbia
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
World Games gold medalists
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro
Mediterranean Games medalists in karate
Deaths from breast cancer in Serbia
21st-century Serbian women
Serbia and Montenegro sportswomen
Medalists at the 2005 World Games
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