Stevan Pletikosić ( sr-cyrl, Стеван Плетикосић; born 14 March 1972 in

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. While still a junior, he won a bronze medal in Men's 50 m Rifle Prone in the

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. The year before, at the 1991 ISSF World Cup in the same event, he had become the only junior ever to achieve the maximum score of 600 in a world-class competition. Pletikosić started competing in 1982, when he was 10 years old. He won a first medal at the European Championships winning a silver at the 1989 European Shooting Championships in

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. During his career, he won another European silver medal and was European champion twice. His first international medal was won at the 1994 ISSF World Shooting Championships, which was also a silver medal.

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proclaimed him sportsman of the year in 1994. Pletikosić also won a silver in the

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, now in the Three positions event, and he won the 2008 ISSF World Cup competition in the Prone event in

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Results at the Olympic Games

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* * * * * 1972 births Serbian male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters as Independent Olympic Participants Yugoslav male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Serbia and Montenegro Olympic shooters for Serbia Olympic bronze medalists as Independent Olympic Participants World record holders in shooting Sportspeople from Kragujevac Living people Olympic medalists in shooting European Games competitors for Serbia Shooters at the 2015 European Games Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Serbia and Montenegro Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Serbia and Montenegro Mediterranean Games medalists in shooting Serbia and Montenegro sportsmen European champions in shooting 21st-century Serbian sportsmen {{Serbia-sportshooting-bio-stub