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

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, then

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) is a

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from

. 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

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. Pletikosić also won a silver in the 2006 ISSF World Shooting Championships, 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

World records

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External links

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